Aug 05 2021
BookNet Canada has released On Diversity: A Survey of Canadian Readers 2021, a free study on the interest of Canadian readers in diverse literature. Among the study's key findings:
94% of respondents agreed or sometimes agreed that "books should be representative of a variety of experiences," with the same being true for 72% of respondents about the statement "books about a group/culture should be written by people from that group," and for the statement "authors should write from their lived experience" (68%).
Summary of survey at Shelf Awareness. Survey linked below.
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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