AMAZON FIRST NOVEL AWARD SHORTLIST THOMAS RADDALL ATLANTIC FICTION AWARD SHORTLIST BMO WINTERSET AWARD SHORTLIST DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD LONGLIST NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TELEGRAM AND WINNIPEG FREE PRESS The hilarious and heartbreaking story of two William Pings in Newfoundland—the lost millennial and the grandfather he knows nothing about William Ping’s millennial life revolves around eating at restaurants, posting online about eating at restaurants, then overanalyzing it. source
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- Set atChinese hand-laundry district (downtown St. John's, 1930s)↗
Publisher copy explicitly anchors the historical timeline to a 1931 Chinese laundry in downtown St. John's; the novel grew out of the author's MA thesis researching the real Chinese community of the city.
HarperCollins Canada (2023); 2023 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award shortlist — source
