Pik-Shuen Fung is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel Ghost Forest was the winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2022. [1]
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, she currently lives in New York City. [2]
Based in part on her own childhood, the novel centers on a Hong Kong immigrant family in Canada, whose family life is marked by the protagonist's father remaining in Hong Kong as an " astronaut father". [3] Published by Strange Light in July 2021, it was named by CBC Books as one of the best Canadian novels of 2021. [4]
Ghost Forest was also the winner of the 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in the fiction category. [5]
Pik-Shuen Fung is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel Ghost Forest was the winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2022. [1]
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, she currently lives in New York City. [2]
Based in part on her own childhood, the novel centers on a Hong Kong immigrant family in Canada, whose family life is marked by the protagonist's father remaining in Hong Kong as an " astronaut father". [3] Published by Strange Light in July 2021, it was named by CBC Books as one of the best Canadian novels of 2021. [4]
Ghost Forest was also the winner of the 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in the fiction category. [5]