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Circa B.C.— Before the Canadian Academy Awards, celebrating with friends & celebrating friends.  A shout out to the one & only, @supinder_w, best co-host ever. ❤️ (@jillhopejohnson how’s the lighting? :)
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I’m thrilled to share that my book The Last Exiles won the 2022 Trillium Award. It was in great company among all the finalists and I’m shocked and grateful that my book happened to be the one to receive the award. The book was launched during COVID when everything was on zoom, and so this moment of real life recognition and celebration is a great surprise and I’m beaming.

The novel took 8-9 years to complete and while much of it was solitary work, it really takes a small village to get a book published and I have many people to thank – starting with my editor @erikacoryn whose vision truly helped shaped the book into its final form. Thank you also to my amazing agent @cforde_litagent and the wonderful team at @parkrowbooks/ @harlequinbooks / @harpercollinsca including Cindy Ma, Rachel Haller, @reederreads, and also @AileenSabanal, Mandy Kane, Saeed Awawdeh and Michel Connor, who have done so much to get this book out into the world – I’m really grateful.

Thank you to Rebecca Fisseha, Stacy May Fowles and Michael Redhill, the Trillium 2022 jurors who went through 600+ books to arrive at their decision – Thank you, I’m humbled and grateful.

Thank you to my extended families and friends without whom none of this would have happened, including Jeff, Aster, Zara, Andrea Cohen B, Diana Fitzgerald Bryden, Anar Ali, @camilla_gibb, @cathymbuchanan, Anne Bayin, Natalee Caple (and more people named in the book!)

Thank you to @ontariocreates for this wonderful award, and to @torontoartscouncil and @canada.council for supporting the manuscript in its earliest days.

If you haven’t read it yet, pick up a copy! ;) I’d be happy to chat with your book club or class.
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