Pik-Shuen Fung is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel Ghost Forest was the winner of the Amazon.ca First Novel Award in 2022."Pik-Shuen Fung’s ‘Ghost Forest’ wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award". Toronto Star, June 1, 2022.
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, she currently lives in New York City."Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung wins $60K Amazon First Novel Award". CBC Books, June 1, 2022.
Based in part on her own childhood, the novel centers on a Hong Kong immigrant family in Canada, whose family life is marked by the protagonist's father remaining in Hong Kong as an "astronaut father".Michelle Cyca, "Elegant elegy for an astronaut father; Universality of grief shines through in moving debut novel about a Chinese-Canadian family". The Province, July 18, 2021. Published by Strange Light in July 2021, it was named by CBC Books as one of the best Canadian novels of 2021."The best Canadian fiction of 2021". CBC Books, December 7, 2021.
Ghost Forest was also the winner of the 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in the fiction category.Cassandra Drudi, "Jesse Wente, Pik-Shuen Fung, Damhnait Monoghan named winners of 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer prizes". Quill & Quire, June 23, 2022.
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