A young woman signs her life away in the ancient Chinese tradition of corpse marriage in UWinnipeg Associate Professor Lindsay Wong’s wickedly hilarious new novel about class, ambition, and the burden of being an impoverished model minority.
I’m thrilled to celebrate my new novel among dear colleagues and friends at UW.
Lindsay Wong
Please join us for the Winnipeg launch of Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies (Penguin Canada) on Tuesday, January 27 at 7:00 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers.
The event will feature a reading and Q&A, including readings from a few of the English department‘s creative writing students. The launch will be hosted by the wonderful Jenny Heijun Wills – professor of English at the University of Winnipeg.
“I’m thrilled to celebrate my new novel among dear colleagues and friends at UW,” said Wong. “A few students have enrolled in every single creative writing workshop that I have taught since my arrival in 2022, so I have invited them to read from their work at the launch. It feels really special to witness their growth as writers, and to also share space and community with so many wonderful people at UWinnipeg. Thank you for welcoming me to the Department of English and University!”
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream.
Villain Hitting for Vicious Little Nobodies is a daring, genre-bending meditation on life, death, and the murderous cost of living in between. It lays bare the societal and cultural expectations placed on Chinese women and the devastating price of enduring them.
This chilling masterclass in fiction cements Lindsay Wong as one of the most provocative Canadian horror writers of our time.
Lindsay Wong is the author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning, and bestselling memoir The Woo-Woo, which was a finalist for Canada Reads 2019 and won the 2019 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. Her book of short stories Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality was shortlisted for the BC and Yukon Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes. She has written a YA novel entitled My Summer of Love and Misfortune. Wong holds a BFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and an MFA in literary nonfiction from Columbia University. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Winnipeg.
