Anna Quon debut novel

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A very important message from Anna Quon—critically-acclaimed debut novelist:

“Hi people,

One in five people will experience a mental illness every year. Yes, that’s roughly 200,000 Nova Scotians! The system to help these people and their loved ones is not working. And currently our government has no strategy to improve things.

Take a moment. Visit www.oneinfive.ca to join the growing number of Nova Scotians calling for a better mental health care system in Nova Scotia.

For those of you out of province, I still recommend you check out the site—it’s very cool, and the 1 in 5 stat applies across the country and the world.

Anna”

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Quoting Sue Carter Flinn, reviewing Anna Quon’s new book “Migration Songs” for The Coast:

Anna Quon’s debut novel Migration Songs is a hopeful sign for Atlantic Canadian literature moving beyond the traditional rural stories and recognizing that we don’t all share the same history. Though Quon’s Halifax is a blur—this is really a story about the interior life and struggles of Joan, a jobless 30-year-old loner, who feels out of place in this world: “Inside I am dark and shady, like a copper beech, rattling its leaves in the breeze.” Joan’s fragility is protected by matronly Hungarian neighbour Edna, Joan’s British father, David, a staunch Mao supporter, and her mother Gillian, a Chinese-Canadian immigrant. Quon has already mastered the power of restraint, shrinking her character down in size, quietly living in the shadow of her parents and their stories. A strong debut from a new hopeful voice.

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