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  | | The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2018 by Arsenal Pulp Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55152-731-4, ISBN: 1-55152-731-6 "WINNER, Lambda Literary Award In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai—her first in sixteen years—a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technology, and powerful men that threaten them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover Peristrophe is a “starfish,” a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to help her clon ..." |
 | | Slanting I, Imagining We(1st Edition) Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s (Transcanada) by Larissa Lai Paperback, 274 Pages, Published 2014 by Wilfrid Laurier University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-77112-041-8, ISBN: 1-77112-041-X "The 1980s and 1990s are a historically crucial period in the development of Asian Canadian literature. Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s contextualizes and reanimates the urgency of that period, illustrates its historical specificities, and shows how the concerns of that moment--from cultural appropriation to race essentialism to shifting models of the state--continue to resonate for con ..." |
 | | TransCanada Ser. Slanting I, Imagining We : Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s And 1990s by Larissa Lai 274 Pages, Published 2014 by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press ISBN-13: 978-1-77112-043-2, ISBN: 1-77112-043-6 "fall too easily into the managing tentacles of official multiculturalism, Paul Lai's critique is compelling in the sense that it allows more room for both the broad historical and the personal/historical location of the writer and her own relationship to language, poetics, and narrative. It allows also for eruptions of the unpredictable and/or that which counters or exceeds the expected form. Lai notes further that ethnography itse ..." |
 | | TransCanada Ser. Slanting I, Imagining We : Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s And 1990s by Larissa Lai 274 Pages, Published 2014 by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press ISBN-13: 978-1-77112-042-5, ISBN: 1-77112-042-8 "In other critical texts, specifically Himani Bannerji's “Sound Barrier” and Lien Chao's “The Transformation from Silence to Voice,” the self is, in a sense, spread across a range of cultural and linguistic locations, some of which are more powerfully experienced as “me” than others. Bannerji, in another essay entitled “ Re:Turning the Gaze” (in Thinking Through) writes heartwrenchingly of her experience of dissociation while teachin ..." |
 | | sybil unrest(2nd Edition) by Larissa Lai, Rita Wong Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2013 by New Star Books ISBN-13: 978-1-55420-069-6, ISBN: 1-55420-069-5 "Originally published by LINEBooks in 2008, sybil unrest by Larissa Lai and Rita Wong draws out the interconnections between feminism, environmentalism, and personal-political responsibility, highlighting and questioning notions of "human" and "female" evident in contemporary North American culture. It does so by referencing "Popular cultural icons, political figures, business slogans, transnational corporations, and other presences in o ..." |
 | | Automaton Biographies by Larissa Lai Published 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1-282-46752-1, ISBN: 1-282-46752-2 |
 | | Fixing Your Feet Pervention and Treatments for Athletes by Larissa Lai, John Vonhof Paperback, 700 Pages, Published 2011 by Readhowyouwant Large Print ISBN-13: 978-1-4587-6159-0, ISBN: 1-4587-6159-2 "Too often athletes spend vast amounts of money, time, and energy on training, equipment, and travel, but little or no preparation on their feet. The highly successful Fixing Your Feet has been revised and updated to make it an even more complete source of information about proper foot care for the runner, hiker, adventure racer, or any athlete. Learn to be proactive in preventing foot problems through proper techniques, reactive with tr ..." |
 | | Automaton Biographies by Larissa Lai Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2010 by Arsenal Pulp Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55152-292-0, ISBN: 1-55152-292-6 "Shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize Automaton Biographies is the first full-len...." |
 | | Automaton Biographies by Larissa Lai 168 Pages, Published 2010 by Arsenal Pulp Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55152-358-3, ISBN: 1-55152-358-2 "... robert browning, luce irigaray, blondie, david bowie with varying degrees of gratitude ham acknowledges: max raabe, britney spears, the beatles, homi bhabha, david bowie, emily brontë, colonel sanders, elizabeth barrett browning, bryan adams, nim chimpsky, the coen brothers, the coulston foundation, miles davis, charles darwin, e.m. forster, susan aglukark, jean-paul gaultier, gilbert and sullivan, glico, god, jane goodall, don ..." |
 | | David Khang How to Feed a Piano: La Monte Young Projects, 2003 to 2008 by David Khang, Larissa Lai, Rinaldo Walcott, Candice Hopkins 78 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-920974-13-1, ISBN: 0-920974-13-9 |
 | | Salt Fish Girl(2nd Edition) A Novel by Larissa Lai Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2008 by Thomas Allen Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-88762-382-0, ISBN: 0-88762-382-4 ""Salt Fish Girl" is the mesmerizing tale of an ageless female character who shifts shape and form through time and place. Told in the beguiling voice of a narrator who is fish, snake, girl, and woman - all of whom must struggle against adversity for survival - the novel is set alternately in nineteenth-century China and in a futuristic Pacific Northwest. At turns whimsical and wry, "Salt Fish Girl" intertwines the story of Nu Wa, the sh ..." |
 | | When Fox Is a Thousand by Larissa Lai 272 Pages, Published 2004 by Arsenal Pulp Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55152-339-2, ISBN: 1-55152-339-6 "First published to wide acclaim in 1995 and out of print since 2001, this new edition of When Fox is a Thousand, published by Arsenal Pulp Press for the first time, features a new foreword by the author." |
 | | When Fox is a Thousand(2nd Edition) by Larissa Lai Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2004 by Arsenal Pulp Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55152-168-8, ISBN: 1-55152-168-7 "When Fox is a Thousand is a lyrical, magical novel, rich with poetry and folklore and elements of the fairytale. Larissa Lai interweaves three narrative voices and their attendant cultures: an elusive fox growing toward wisdom and her 1000 birthday, the ninth-century Taoist poet/nun Yu Hsuan-Chi (a real person executed in China for murder), and the oddly named Artemis, a young Asian-American woman living in contemporary Vancouver.With b ..." |
 | | Bringing It Home Women Talk About Feminism in Their Lives by Brenda Lea Brown, Larissa Lai, Arsenal Pulp Press Paperback, 347 Pages, Published 2002 by Arsenal Pulp Press ISBN-13: 978-1-55152-034-6, ISBN: 1-55152-034-6 "Some twenty-five years after the height of the "women's liberation movement, " feminism has, in certain circles, become a dirty word; for some, it is no longer relevant, nor descriptive of women's lives today. For others, however, the struggles and the issues continue, implying the need for a redefinition of feminism and its role in modern society. Bringing it Home is a collection of intensely personal essays by women, from diverse expe ..." |
 | | Salt Fish Girl(1st Edition) A Novel by Larissa Lai Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2002 by Thomas Allen Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-88762-111-6, ISBN: 0-88762-111-2 "Salt Fish Girl is the mesmerizing tale of an ageless female character who shifts shape and form through time and place. Told in the beguiling voice of a narrator who is fish, snake, girl, and woman - all of whom must struggle against adversity for survival - the novel is set alternately in nineteenth-century China and in a futuristic Pacific Northwest. At turns whimsical and wry, Salt Fish Girl intertwines the story of Nu Wa, the shape- ..." |
 | | The Messerschmitt Me 262 The World's First Turbojet Fighter (Schiffer Military History, Vol II) by Manfred Griehl, Edward Force, Heinrich Hecht, Larissa Lai Paperback, 48 Pages, Published 1997 by Schiffer Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-88740-410-8, ISBN: 0-88740-410-3 "Volume II on the Me 262 with emphasis on the units that flew it. 80 b/w photographs" |
 | | Urban Fictions(1st Edition) by Rosa Ho, Lynne S. Bell, Marilyn Dumont, Lorna Brown, Larissa Lai, Presentation House Gallery, Margot Butler, Ana Chang, Allyson Clay, Dana Brown Claxton Paperback, 64 Pages, Published 1997 by Presentation House Gallery ISBN-13: 978-0-920293-41-6, ISBN: 0-920293-41-7 "A group exhibition and publication of work by twelve Vancouver artists, addressing women and urban life, including issues of mobility, safety, negotiation, pleasure and transformation. Artists in the exhibition were Lorna Brown, Margot Butler, Ana Chang, Allyson Clay, Dana Claxton, Andrea Fatona, Melinda Mollineaux, Shani Mootoo, Susan Schuppli, Karen Ai-Lyn Tee, Cornelia Wyngaarden, Jin-me Yoon. The catalogue includes prose works by Ma ..." |
 | | When Fox Is a Thousand(1st Edition) by Larissa Lai Paperback, 236 Pages, Published 1995 by Raincoast Book Dist Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-88974-041-9, ISBN: 0-88974-041-0 "When Fox is a Thousand is a lyrical, magical novel, rich with poetry and folklore and elements of the fairytale. Larissa Lai interweaves three narrative voices and their attendant cultures: an elusive fox growing toward wisdom and her 1000 birthday, the ninth-century Taoist poet/nun Yu Hsuan-Chi (a real person executed in China for murder), and the oddly named Artemis, a young Asian-American woman living in contemporary Vancouver.With b ..." |
 | | Earthly Pleasures by Larissa Lai, Grunt Gallery, Lorraine Chan 16 Pages, Published 1994 ISBN-13: 978-1-895329-19-3, ISBN: 1-895329-19-1 |