A Kiss Beside the Monkey Bars: Stories by Four New Writers

SULTAN AMEERALI, born in Toronto to Sri Lankan parents, chronicles the hilarious and shocking absurdities of the brown man making do in white Canada through bottom-feeder jobs and heartless relationships. JENNIFER LEE, produces wry, low-key tales about living across cultural boundaries, first in southern Ontario, then during a year in China, her parents’ homeland. KWAI LI, takes us to the tiny marginalized community of Chinese in Tangra, a suburb of post-colonial Calcutta, where as a six-year-old she stood watch for the cops as her mother turned a tannery by day into a moonshine operation by night. ROSA VELTRI, the daughter of Italian-born parents in Toronto’s west end, writes sparkling and heartbreaking stories of immigrants who struggle for dignity and a living in a hellish suburban fruit market.