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Jen Sookfong Lee

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Jen Sookfong Lee writes, talks on the radio and loves her slow cooker.

In 2007, Knopf Canada published Jen’s first novel, The End of East, as part of its New Face of Fiction program. Hailed as “an emotional powerhouse of a novel,” The End of East shines a light on the Chinese Canadian story, the repercussions of immigration and the city of Vancouver.

Shelter, Jen’s first fiction for young adults, was published in February 2011 as part of Annick Press’ Single Voice series. It follows a young girl as she struggles to balance her first and dangerous love affair with a difficult and demanding family.

Called “straight-ahead page-turning brilliance” by The National Post and shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Award, The Better Mother, Jen’s s ...more

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Average rating: 3.63 · 4,734 ratings · 928 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors

	Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart 3.88 avg rating — 1,320 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Conjoined 3.27 avg rating — 1,557 ratings — published 2016 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hunger We Pass Down 3.79 avg rating — 561 ratings — published 2025 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End of East 3.35 avg rating — 550 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whatever Gets You Through: Twelve Survivors on Life after Sexual Assault by Jen Sookfong Lee, Stacey May Fowles (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jessica Valenti (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.39 avg rating — 222 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Better Mother 3.54 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Animals of Chinese New Year / 中国农历新年动物生肖 by Jen Sookfong Lee, Kileasa Wong (Translation) 3.64 avg rating — 104 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadow List 4.22 avg rating — 72 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gentlemen of the Shade: My Own Private Idaho (7) (Pop Classics) 4.04 avg rating — 55 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Finding Home: The Journey of Immigrants and Refugees by Jen Sookfong Lee, Drew Shannon (Goodreads Author) (Illustrations) 4.24 avg rating — 33 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Shew Lin talks loudly, moves with hurricane-like energy. Everything she does is meant to be noticed and the center of attention.”
― Jen Sookfong Lee, The End of East

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“One week later, he lies in the hospital room, his breath moving deliberately in and out of his body. He feels as if he has been in this small room forever, that his home life is a blurry dream he cannot really remember. He moves his feet in circles, first the left, then the right. Their swelling has not stopped., and he knows that soon he will be unable to move them at all.”
― Jen Sookfong Lee, The End of East

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“I pierced the upper cartilage on my right ear three times during my final year of high school. My mother noticed while we were eating dinner, threw down her chopsticks, and cried, "Are you one of those people who sits at the back of the bus?”
― Jen Sookfong Lee, Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart

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Hazelthorn by C.G. Drews (368 pp)

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