May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada. Throughout the month and beyond, CBC Books is highlighting books across many genres by writers of East Asian, South Asian, Western, Central and Southeast Asian descent.
As a teenager, Paola Ferrante loved Timothy Findley’s writing. She remembers hearing an anecdote about how the author once threw out a short story because he believed it was too dark and dreary, that it failed to give the reader any hope. “That stuck with me because