Very Vancouver: Uncovering the Soul of a West Coast City - Couverture souple

Cheung, Christopher

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1770418385 ISBN 13 : 9781770418387

Editeur : ECW Press,Canada, 2026

Synopsis

Vancouver journalist Christopher Cheung has spent most of his career chasing the stories that no one else was covering, taking readers beneath the surface of the 'city of glass' to expose the beating, multicultural heart of a place that has too easily been characterised by multimillion-dollar condos and yoga pants. In 15 deeply human and well-researched stories, Very Vancouver tours the city to reveal how families, businesses, and individuals are just trying to make a home in this beautiful, and challenging, place of plurality. There are the families who were the first to mass-produce Canadian tofu and put beef balls in the earliest bowls of Eastside pho. There is the diligent population of binners who scavenge alleyways for refundable cans and bottles. There is the roller-coaster story of how migration has shaped the kaleidoscopic menu - with bear claws, banh mi, and tamales - of the legendary late-night Duffin's Donuts. And, of course, there is the mysterious Baklava Man, who sold his treats on downtown streets after a career as an outspoken politician in Syria led to his exile. Very Vancouver is a tribute to the city's diasporas and examines the inequalities and fractured histories that mark every backyard vegetable garden and ubiquitous Vancouver Special, the boxy and derided design that housed newcomers. Vancouver is renowned for its natural beauty, but it's also a place built on a foundation of migration, colonisation, the working poor, and families who woke up every morning hoping for better.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Christopher Cheung is the author of Under the White Gaze: Solving the Problem of Race and Representation in Canadian Journalism. He has worked as a reporter at The Tyee, Metro, and the Vancouver Courier and has received two Webster Awards, BC's top journalism prize. He was born and raised in Vancouver, where he still lives.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: ECW Press,Canada
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1770418385
• ISBN 13: 9781770418387
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible