Familial Hungers by Christine Wu

Bittersweet, numbingly spicy, herbal and milky, Familial Hungers is a lyric feast. Ginger scallion fish, Sichuan peppercorns, ginseng tea, Chinese school and white chefs — the reader's appetite is satiated with these poems' complex palate. There are the bubbling expectations for immigrant daughters, the chewy strands of colonial critique, and dissolving crystals of language loss. Wu relentlessly searches the grocery shelves for the hard-to-digest ingredients of identity and belonging, offering us her nourishing honesty and courage pulled from the marrow.

(From Brick Books) 

Christine Wu is a Chinese-Canadian poet based in Halifax. She won the 2023 RBC PEN Canada New Voices Award and was shortlisted for the RBC Writers' Trust Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in 2022. Wu holds a BFA in creative writing from the University of Victoria, a master of library and information studies from Dalhousie University and an MA in English from the University of New Brunswick.