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August Book Club: Jamie Ford’s ‘The Many Daughters of Afong Moy’

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📸📸📸PARTY PICS: Canadian fashion designer

📸📸📸PARTY PICS: Canadian fashion designer @hilarymacmillan designed a special @barbie capsule collection and held a fete in Yorkville last week to celebrate the launch. The dress code was PINK and guests were happy to abide.
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📸: @candacecos was on the scene to snap the extremely fun event. Link in bio to browse pics. The HM x @Barbie concept pop-up is located at 131 Bloor Street and open until the end of Sept.
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Need a bright pink statement trench for fall? 💓🎀💄🍬👛🦩🎟
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#Barbie #CanadianDesign #hilarymacmillan #yorkville #pink #fashion

🐝🐝🐝🎬🎬🎬 Every Tuesday this month,

🐝🐝🐝🎬🎬🎬 Every Tuesday this month, @bumblebff is hosting an outdoor screening here ☝️, at @rendezviewsto. Tomorrow night’s film is GREASE, in honour of Olivia Newton-John. Aug 23 is HOW TO LOSE A GUY IN 10 DAYS, and on Aug 30, they’ll screen SISTERHOOD OF THE TRAVELLING PANTS. Enjoy summer while it’s here! Link in bio for more info + RSVP.
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#toronto #summerfun #outdoormovies #film #shedoesthecity #bumble #bumblebff

📚 INTERVIEW: @jenmcneely79 talks to writer @lea

📚 INTERVIEW: @jenmcneely79 talks to writer @leahmcbeah about her unusual childhood in Toronto, and her gripping & controversial memoir, ‘Where You End And I Begin’, where she daringly confronts mother-daughter trauma. If your mom was more like a friend than a mother, this will deeply resonate. But anyone who has had a relationship with blurred boundaries will get it. We devoured in 24 hours. The many scenes around Toronto in the late 80s-90s brought on waves of nostalgia. Is this on your reading list? Have you already read? Link in bio to read the full interview. Lots to chew on here.
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#memoir #bookstagram #enmeshment #codependency #boundaries #motherhood #canlit #motherdaughter

📚👀📚AUGUST BOOK CLUB TITLE REVEAL: @jamief

📚👀📚AUGUST BOOK CLUB TITLE REVEAL: @jamieford’s MAGNIFICENT novel ‘The Many Daughters of Afong Moy’. Sometimes you pick up a book, and you are so impressed with the masterful writing, the rich characters and unpredictable plot twists that you think “How did they do this?!” Well, that’s how we feel about this gem ☝️.
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In this mesmerizing and thought-provoking story about mothers and daughters, and the powerful exploration of the love that binds one family across generations, Ford drops readers into different locations and eras in time (from 1836-2045), revealing the eerie and breathtaking similarities between five generations of Chinese American women.
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While the novel is fictional, it’s based on the real life story of Afong Moy, the first known Chinese woman to set foot in the United States, and seamlessly weaves in a compelling narrative of magic, mystery, love, heartache and trauma. Ford explores whether the “contour and texture of our lives are shaped-in part-by some form of genetic predetermination”. It’s a completely fascinating idea that will have readers looking back at their own ancestry, questioning the common threads that are identifiable, even if life experiences are vastly different.
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Ready to read along with us? We promise this book will make your August more interesting, and get your brain moving in all sorts of different directions. Link in bio to find out more and purchase, or enter to win a copy next week, when we launch a very cool contest with @cryingoutloudto. More on that soon. 👀👀👀
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Next week we’ll be chatting with Ford and look forward to sharing that soon too.
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We love the wide variety of books we’ve read through our @simonschusterca #BooksMakeLifeBetter book club. Books and reading DO make life better! To make time to enjoy a diverse range of genres by very different authors is gift.
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#booksmakelifebetter #bookstagram #bookclub #jamieford #themanydaughtersofafongmoy #novel #readinglist #newbookalert #bookworm 🐛📚

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