Jen Sookfong Lee
@jensookfonglee.bsky.social
Still an author, still an editor, new book THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN out now, it might scare you
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What an honour for @danielinnes.bsky.social and I to have DENISON AVENUE be the featured title for Together We Read Canada!
Starting today until Nov 18th, you can borrow the e-book or audiobook via the Libby app with no waitlists or holds!
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Starting today until Nov 18th, you can borrow the e-book or audiobook via the Libby app with no waitlists or holds!
@ecwpress.bsky.social @jensookfonglee.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
What an honour for @danielinnes.bsky.social and I to have DENISON AVENUE be the featured title for Together We Read Canada!
Starting today until Nov 18th, you can borrow the e-book or audiobook via the Libby app with no waitlists or holds!
@ecwpress.bsky.social @jensookfonglee.bsky.social
Starting today until Nov 18th, you can borrow the e-book or audiobook via the Libby app with no waitlists or holds!
@ecwpress.bsky.social @jensookfonglee.bsky.social
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Thank you to @jensookfonglee.bsky.social @adelebarclay.bsky.social and @michaelvsmith.bsky.social for sharing these warm and generous endorsement quotes for Reckless by Andrea MacPherson.
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October 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Thank you to @jensookfonglee.bsky.social @adelebarclay.bsky.social and @michaelvsmith.bsky.social for sharing these warm and generous endorsement quotes for Reckless by Andrea MacPherson.
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Please go read the Goodreads reviews for THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN because you will see gems like this.
October 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Please go read the Goodreads reviews for THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN because you will see gems like this.
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Five Canadian horror novels you may not have read:
* Green Fuse Burning by @tiffmorris.bsky.social
* The Marigold by @afsulli.bsky.social
* Linghun by @aijiang.bsky.social
* The Hunger We Pass Down by @jensookfonglee.bsky.social
* No One Will Come Back For Us by @premeemohamed.com
* Green Fuse Burning by @tiffmorris.bsky.social
* The Marigold by @afsulli.bsky.social
* Linghun by @aijiang.bsky.social
* The Hunger We Pass Down by @jensookfonglee.bsky.social
* No One Will Come Back For Us by @premeemohamed.com
Five Canadian horror films you may not have seen:
* Red Rooms
* The Strings
* Clearcut
* The Editor
* Les Affamés
* Red Rooms
* The Strings
* Clearcut
* The Editor
* Les Affamés
If you follow me, I know you know this. But Canadian art and culture actually fucking rules now. ESPECIALLY our horror. This was a big topic of a panel I did with @daviddemchuk.com and @elliottgish.bsky.social a couple weeks ago.
October 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Five Canadian horror novels you may not have read:
* Green Fuse Burning by @tiffmorris.bsky.social
* The Marigold by @afsulli.bsky.social
* Linghun by @aijiang.bsky.social
* The Hunger We Pass Down by @jensookfonglee.bsky.social
* No One Will Come Back For Us by @premeemohamed.com
* Green Fuse Burning by @tiffmorris.bsky.social
* The Marigold by @afsulli.bsky.social
* Linghun by @aijiang.bsky.social
* The Hunger We Pass Down by @jensookfonglee.bsky.social
* No One Will Come Back For Us by @premeemohamed.com
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Ahhhhhh, we're in @electricliterature.com!☺️
Thank you Kate Cayley for including DENISON AVENUE on your list!
Means so much to @danielinnes.bsky.social and I!❤️
@ecwpress.bsky.social
@jensookfonglee.bsky.social
Thank you Kate Cayley for including DENISON AVENUE on your list!
Means so much to @danielinnes.bsky.social and I!❤️
@ecwpress.bsky.social
@jensookfonglee.bsky.social
A list that looks at the complex and contradictory life of cities, the thorniness of class and privilege, and how neighborhoods shift.
7 Books About the Precarity of Urban Life - Electric Literature
These authors examine wealth disparity, property ownership, and the collision of lives in shifting neighborhoods
buff.ly
October 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Ahhhhhh, we're in @electricliterature.com!☺️
Thank you Kate Cayley for including DENISON AVENUE on your list!
Means so much to @danielinnes.bsky.social and I!❤️
@ecwpress.bsky.social
@jensookfonglee.bsky.social
Thank you Kate Cayley for including DENISON AVENUE on your list!
Means so much to @danielinnes.bsky.social and I!❤️
@ecwpress.bsky.social
@jensookfonglee.bsky.social
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Find your new favorite author with these #horror #NewReleases
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October 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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#TheHungerWePassDown by @JenSookfongLee is featured in yesterday's #newbooks haul on youtube!
watch: youtu.be/M1R-AjU7LZI
buy the books: bookshop.org/lists/n...
#booksky @erewhonbooks
watch: youtu.be/M1R-AjU7LZI
buy the books: bookshop.org/lists/n...
#booksky @erewhonbooks
October 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
#TheHungerWePassDown by @JenSookfongLee is featured in yesterday's #newbooks haul on youtube!
watch: youtu.be/M1R-AjU7LZI
buy the books: bookshop.org/lists/n...
#booksky @erewhonbooks
watch: youtu.be/M1R-AjU7LZI
buy the books: bookshop.org/lists/n...
#booksky @erewhonbooks
THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN is now available everywhere you buy your books in the US! American friends, please love my Asian lady demons.
October 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN is now available everywhere you buy your books in the US! American friends, please love my Asian lady demons.
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Authors this round include @mattdinniman.bsky.social, @sarahgailey.bsky.social, @yumewrites.bsky.social, @jensookfonglee.bsky.social, @olgaravn.bsky.social, @eddierobson.bsky.social, @senlinyu.bsky.social, @michaelwehunt.bsky.social, @franwilde.bsky.social, and more!
17 more sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books to close out September with
One last book list for the month
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September 30, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Authors this round include @mattdinniman.bsky.social, @sarahgailey.bsky.social, @yumewrites.bsky.social, @jensookfonglee.bsky.social, @olgaravn.bsky.social, @eddierobson.bsky.social, @senlinyu.bsky.social, @michaelwehunt.bsky.social, @franwilde.bsky.social, and more!
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In #TheHungerWePassDown, @jensookfonglee.bsky.social has written a terrifying, visceral story of generational trauma and how it is passed down through five generations of women. #BookSky TY to #NetGalley and @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social for the ARC for my honest review here:
The Hunger We Pass Down — CandiKat Horror
There are moments where I felt my stomach drop as I realized what was happening to someone, moments where I felt my stomach tighten in grief as the women lost loved ones, and moments where I felt my s...
candikathorror.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:12 AM
In #TheHungerWePassDown, @jensookfonglee.bsky.social has written a terrifying, visceral story of generational trauma and how it is passed down through five generations of women. #BookSky TY to #NetGalley and @kensingtonbooks.bsky.social for the ARC for my honest review here:
It's so rare to see real book reviews in Canada anymore, so I really treasure this one from the Winnipeg Free Press by Keith Cadieux. "A novel of excellent literary merit and a pitch-perfect ghost story."
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Generations haunted by traumas of the past in Jen Sookfong Lee’s chilling new novel The Hunger We Pass Down
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September 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
It's so rare to see real book reviews in Canada anymore, so I really treasure this one from the Winnipeg Free Press by Keith Cadieux. "A novel of excellent literary merit and a pitch-perfect ghost story."
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
Not every class needs to be a masterclass. I'm happy with a Mostly Competent Class.
September 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Not every class needs to be a masterclass. I'm happy with a Mostly Competent Class.
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Some great words & people found at @wordvancouver.bsky.social
Great to meet Gary Jones who hosted @wongski.bsky.social & I on our books about #Vancouver music and venues.
…And honoured to moderate a discussion w/ #scottalexanderhoward & @jensookfonglee.bsky.social on their new books!
Great to meet Gary Jones who hosted @wongski.bsky.social & I on our books about #Vancouver music and venues.
…And honoured to moderate a discussion w/ #scottalexanderhoward & @jensookfonglee.bsky.social on their new books!
September 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Some great words & people found at @wordvancouver.bsky.social
Great to meet Gary Jones who hosted @wongski.bsky.social & I on our books about #Vancouver music and venues.
…And honoured to moderate a discussion w/ #scottalexanderhoward & @jensookfonglee.bsky.social on their new books!
Great to meet Gary Jones who hosted @wongski.bsky.social & I on our books about #Vancouver music and venues.
…And honoured to moderate a discussion w/ #scottalexanderhoward & @jensookfonglee.bsky.social on their new books!
Well, look at that. THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN is a Globe bestseller in its first week of life! I had better celebrate this weekend because this may never happen again lol.
September 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Well, look at that. THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN is a Globe bestseller in its first week of life! I had better celebrate this weekend because this may never happen again lol.
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"I did not scare myself. I *delighted* myself." 🔥
The iconic and delightful @jensookfonglee.bsky.social speaks to @harrisonmooney.bsky.social about her new book, The Hunger We Pass Down. I can't wait to read it. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
The iconic and delightful @jensookfonglee.bsky.social speaks to @harrisonmooney.bsky.social about her new book, The Hunger We Pass Down. I can't wait to read it. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
Jen Sookfong Lee’s New Novel Is Terrifying | The Tyee
The Vancouver author’s latest work explores intergenerational trauma and what it means to live as a racialized immigrant woman.
thetyee.ca
September 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
"I did not scare myself. I *delighted* myself." 🔥
The iconic and delightful @jensookfonglee.bsky.social speaks to @harrisonmooney.bsky.social about her new book, The Hunger We Pass Down. I can't wait to read it. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
The iconic and delightful @jensookfonglee.bsky.social speaks to @harrisonmooney.bsky.social about her new book, The Hunger We Pass Down. I can't wait to read it. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
Spooky music for your spooky reading time! You know you want it! music.apple.com/ca/playlist/...
Hunger We Listen To by Jennifer Lee on Apple Music
Playlist · 30 Songs
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September 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Spooky music for your spooky reading time! You know you want it! music.apple.com/ca/playlist/...
TFW you talk about your long retired therapist on national public radio and she messages you because she heard it and you immediately panic because the one person in the world you do not want to piss off is the mental health practitioner who knows all your secrets.
September 8, 2025 at 5:57 PM
TFW you talk about your long retired therapist on national public radio and she messages you because she heard it and you immediately panic because the one person in the world you do not want to piss off is the mental health practitioner who knows all your secrets.
It's very on brand for me to talk about the indignities of the female body but did you also know I can talk about GHOSTS? My interview with Q on CBC is online now! www.cbc.ca/arts/q/jen-s...
Jen Sookfong Lee on the ghosts of motherhood | CBC Arts
The Canadian author joins Q guest host Talia Schlanger to talk about her haunting new novel, The Hunger We Pass Down, and how it explores intergenerational trauma in a Chinese Canadian family.
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September 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It's very on brand for me to talk about the indignities of the female body but did you also know I can talk about GHOSTS? My interview with Q on CBC is online now! www.cbc.ca/arts/q/jen-s...
Every white guy musician at the MTV VMAs this year looks like Wheels from Degrassi.
September 8, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Every white guy musician at the MTV VMAs this year looks like Wheels from Degrassi.
TFW you find out your university has published a "prominent alumnus" profile about a classmate who was always a super douche and now is very wealthy from investing in things no one likes and is also a straight white man, but have never featured you or your THIRTEEN books in anything at all.
September 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
TFW you find out your university has published a "prominent alumnus" profile about a classmate who was always a super douche and now is very wealthy from investing in things no one likes and is also a straight white man, but have never featured you or your THIRTEEN books in anything at all.
I've been saving this blurb for last because I am the biggest Kelly Link fan ever. KELLY LIKES MY BOOK. What is this dream I am living in?? Anyway, THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN comes out next Tuesday in Canada, September 30th in the US. I love you, I want to scare you.
September 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I've been saving this blurb for last because I am the biggest Kelly Link fan ever. KELLY LIKES MY BOOK. What is this dream I am living in?? Anyway, THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN comes out next Tuesday in Canada, September 30th in the US. I love you, I want to scare you.
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Our September reads, brought to you with love every month! Purchase through @Bookshop_Org & support our programs! bookshop.org/lists/septem... This month features: Shelley Stratton @artsypabster.bsky.social Hika Harada Philip Gabriel @rosedommu.bsky.social @jensookfonglee.bsky.social Jasminne Mendez
September 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Our September reads, brought to you with love every month! Purchase through @Bookshop_Org & support our programs! bookshop.org/lists/septem... This month features: Shelley Stratton @artsypabster.bsky.social Hika Harada Philip Gabriel @rosedommu.bsky.social @jensookfonglee.bsky.social Jasminne Mendez
THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN has been selected for very first The Booksellers’ List, which celebrates the top 20 books of the season, as voted on by independent booksellers across Canada! IF THE BOOKSELLERS LIKE MY BOOKS, I AM DOING OKAY. Find your closest indie store at indiebookstores.ca
September 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN has been selected for very first The Booksellers’ List, which celebrates the top 20 books of the season, as voted on by independent booksellers across Canada! IF THE BOOKSELLERS LIKE MY BOOKS, I AM DOING OKAY. Find your closest indie store at indiebookstores.ca
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Build your fall TBR with September's new horror releases - Day 3
@anovelescape.bsky.social @thebuffwriter.bsky.social
@timlebbon.bsky.social @kalynnbayron.bsky.social
@bobpastorella.com
@jfdt.bsky.social @lisaspringer.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social @scribeofhades.bsky.social
@anovelescape.bsky.social @thebuffwriter.bsky.social
@timlebbon.bsky.social @kalynnbayron.bsky.social
@bobpastorella.com
@jfdt.bsky.social @lisaspringer.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social @scribeofhades.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Build your fall TBR with September's new horror releases - Day 3
@anovelescape.bsky.social @thebuffwriter.bsky.social
@timlebbon.bsky.social @kalynnbayron.bsky.social
@bobpastorella.com
@jfdt.bsky.social @lisaspringer.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social @scribeofhades.bsky.social
@anovelescape.bsky.social @thebuffwriter.bsky.social
@timlebbon.bsky.social @kalynnbayron.bsky.social
@bobpastorella.com
@jfdt.bsky.social @lisaspringer.bsky.social @almakatsu.bsky.social @scribeofhades.bsky.social
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Most Canadians oppose book bans.
Most Canadians want their kids to have access to a wide range of books.
Most Canadians trust teachers and librarians to build library collections.
The government should not be telling teens what they can and can't read. Now is an important time to speak up.
Most Canadians want their kids to have access to a wide range of books.
Most Canadians trust teachers and librarians to build library collections.
The government should not be telling teens what they can and can't read. Now is an important time to speak up.
Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge.
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The Handmaid's Tale among more than 200 books to be pulled at Edmonton public schools | CBC News
A list confirmed by CBC News shows titles like The Handmaid's Tale and Brave New World are among books to be pulled. The development comes after a policy from Alberta's education minister outlines new...
www.cbc.ca
August 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Most Canadians oppose book bans.
Most Canadians want their kids to have access to a wide range of books.
Most Canadians trust teachers and librarians to build library collections.
The government should not be telling teens what they can and can't read. Now is an important time to speak up.
Most Canadians want their kids to have access to a wide range of books.
Most Canadians trust teachers and librarians to build library collections.
The government should not be telling teens what they can and can't read. Now is an important time to speak up.