Lindsay Wong

Lindsay Wong is a Canadian writer, whose memoir The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family was published in 2018.[1] The book, a humorous memoir about her Chinese Canadian family's history of mental illness,[2] won the 2019 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize[3] and was a shortlisted finalist for the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction.[4]

Originally from Vancouver, British Columbia,[5] Wong wrote the book while pursuing graduate studies at Columbia University in New York City.[1]

The Woo-Woo was selected for the 2019 edition of Canada Reads, where it was defended by Joe Zee,[6] and was longlisted for the 2019 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.[7]

References
  1. "Lindsay Wong uses humour to examine her family’s history of mental illness and supernatural beliefs". Toronto Star, October 6, 2018.
  2. "Why Lindsay Wong wrote a memoir about her family's mental health struggles". CBC Books, January 31, 2019.
  3. Janis Cleugh, "National praise for The Woo-Woo". The Tri-City News, May 17, 2019.
  4. "Elizabeth Hay, Terese Marie Mailhot, Lindsay Wong among Weston Prize finalists". Quill & Quire, September 19, 2018.
  5. "The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family". Quill & Quire, October 2018.
  6. "Chuck Comeau, Joe Zee, Lisa Ray take on Canada Reads battle of the books". CityNews, January 31, 2019.
  7. Jane van Koeverden, "Eden Robinson, Rick Mercer & Lindsay Wong longlisted for 2019 Leacock Medal for humour". CBC Books, April 23, 2019.


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