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Léa Taranto

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Léa Taranto (she/her) is a disabled, Chinese Jewish Canadian writer who spent her childhood reading fantasy. Her adolescence was much the same, except certified in various inpatient facilities for life-threatening OCD and comorbid disorders. She writes stories where Mad and/or neurodivergent readers see themselves in her characters while also acknowledging mental health's intersectionalities, including race, ability, gender and sexuality. Based on lived experience, her debut novel, A Drop in the Ocean, was a finalist for the Governor General's and Forest of Reading's White Pine awards and The BC & Yukon Book Prize. A University of British Columbia MFA graduate and Simon Fraser University Writer’s Studio alumnus, find her beachcombing on tra ...more

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"This book truly stuck with me as a youth with severe OCD. It’s incredibly hard to find accurate representation and I’m so glad that I found it by a local author. So cool!"
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