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Su Chang's The Immortal Woman is an insightful, nuanced debut from a rising star of Canadian literature, that offers a rarely seen insider’s view of the fractured lives of new Chinese immigrants and those they leave behind.

Join Su Chang and acclaimed author Thea Lim for a conversation about this powerful novel and how geopolitical forces and the pressure to assimilate can impact families.

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Su Chang is a Chinese-Canadian writer. Born and raised in Shanghai, she is the daughter of a former (reluctant) Red Guard leader. Her fiction has been recognized in Prairie Fire’s Short Fiction Contest, Canadian Authors' Association (Toronto) National Writing Contest, ILS/Fence Fiction Contest, the Masters Review's Novel Excerpt Contest, Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival Fiction Contest, among others. The Immortal Woman is her debut novel.

Thea Lim is the author of An Ocean of Minutes, which was a finalist for multiple national and international prizes, translated into three languages, and optioned for television. Her writing has been published in Granta, The Nation, The Paris Review, Best Canadian Stories, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, Guernica, and others. She was a juror for the 2022 Governor General’s Fiction Prize and the 2023 Trillium Book Award, and she has served as the Barker Fairley Distinguished Visitor at University College, as a Toronto Public Library Writer-in-Residence, and as a UTSC Writer-in-Residence. She grew up in Singapore and now lives with her family in Toronto/Tkaronto.