bad news everyone, Drake might have been onto something…
listen to the full interview with @eddyautomatic recorded live at main street @bookwarehousevancouver on the Friendless podcast feed. just follow the links in our page bio or search “Friendless” anywhere you get your podcasts.
fun and safety sweet peas 🫛 (and i guess like…yolo??)
May is Asian Heritage Month, an opportunity to recognize and engage with the histories, cultures, and experiences of Asian communities through literature and storytelling!
To mark the month, our Summer Work Study students curated a selection of books by West, East, and South Asian authors. The display includes fiction and memoir titles that explore identity, family, migration, memory, and belonging. All selections are available for loan from the library.
Featured titles include:
- Jameela Green Ruins Everything by Zarqa Nawaz
- Memory Piece by Lisa Ko
- Come My Children by Hekmat Al-Taweel
- We Were Dreamers by Simu Liu
- Satellite Love by Genki Ferguson
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- The Tiger and the Cosmonaut by Eddy Boudel Tan
- A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
- The White Book by Han Kang
- The Woo-Woo by Lindsay Wong
- The Boat People by Sharon Bala
Visit the library to explore the display and borrow your next favourite book! ✨
#kuclibrary #kingslibrary
listen to the latest episode of Friendless with special guest @eddyautomatic recorded live at the main street @bookwarehousevancouver
link in the bio or search Friendless anywhere you get your podcasts.
and if you want to be a part of the audience for a future interview, we record live at 6pm every other thursday. check the feed for updates.
fun and safety sweet peas 🫛💕
it’s tuesday and you know what that means!
this week on Friendless i’m joined by @eddyautomatic for a live interview at @bookwarehousevancouver on main street. we got real weird with this one, talking everything from the grief we hold for those we love, outlets for asian rage, the contradiction of identity, and where prejudice first forms. all that and so much more, this interview was an absolute treat and i’ve been so excited to share it since recording.
listen now through the link in the page bio or just search for Friendless anywhere you get your podcasts.
get off this hellscape and go listen now!
fun and safety sweet peas 🫛
One week left! Mark your calendars!
Book Warehouse Main St presents An Asian Heritage Month Celebration of Authors with Wiley Wei-Chium Ho, Eddy Boudel Tan, and Donna Seto.
The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street is an intimate geopolitical memoir about a family separated by distance and borders, split between Taiwan and Canada in the wake of shifting global powers.
The Tiger and the Cosmonaut is a noirsh page-turner about a mysterious disappearance and a moving portrait of a Chinese Canadian family navigating insecurities, expectations, and simmering anger in their small BC town.
Chinatown Vancouver is a colourful illustrated history of the buildings in Vancouver's Chinatown, celebrating the richness, diversity, and vibrancy of the Chinese community.
Event is Tuesday, May 19 at 4118 Main St. Doors at 6:30 pm, event starts at 7:00 pm. Free to attend and all are welcome.
I know I have a bias but the Toronto Public Library 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 system is the best in the world. Walked into the Riverdale Branch today and saw this display right at the front with Shilpi Somaya Gowda's audio book on display and a poster highlighting Mansi Shah, Noreen Nanja, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Rachel Phan, Eddy Boudel Tan, Farah Ghafoor, Uzma Jalaluddin, Liann Zhang, and many other talented Asian heritage writers!
What a treat to have access to all of these books and so many more. And they even started opening on Sundays recently.
#bookrecommendations #SouthAsianAuthors #Bookstagram #DiverseVoices #asianheritagemonth
Since last year’s conference, these three authors have had career-changing news.
We're talking to them about what success ACTUALLY looks like after an @oprah endorsement, a @gillerprize nomination and a publishing deal.
Led by producer of @boldleaps on CHEK TV, Lisa Bagshaw will lead the conversation with @howiley , @kaylafineart , and @eddyautomatic .
Be in the room on June 6th where honesty and clarity are at the forefront of the conversation. Tickets: VIPConference.ca
#VancouverEvents #BookishEvent #WritingConference #PublishingIndustry #AuthorSuccess
Crime Writers of Canada announced the 2026 Awards of Excellence Shortlist and we are so excited for our authors who were named finalists.
📚 THE PETER ROBINSON AWARD FOR BEST CRIME NOVEL
⭐️ Jen Sookfong Lee, THE HUNGER WE PASS DOWN, McClelland & Stewart
Jen Sookfong Lee is represented by Samantha Haywood.
⭐️ Eddy Boudel Tan, THE TIGER AND THE COSMONAUT, Viking Canada.
Eddy Boudel Tan is represented by Rachel Letofsky.
📚 BEST JUVENILE / YA CRIME BOOK
⭐️ Vicki Grant, DEATH BY WHOOPEE CUSHION, Tundra Books
Vicki Grant is represented by Fiona Kenshole.
⭐️ Tanya Lloyd Kyi, THE CITY OF LOST CATS, Tundra Books
Tanya Lloyd Kyi is represented by Amy Tompkins.
Congratulations to all!
THE REBELLIOUS TIDE by Eddy Boudel Tan
3.5/5 Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️
cw: assault, sexual harassment, human trafficking
When twenty-nine-year-old Sebastian’s mother dies after years of illness and a lifetime of poverty, he leaves Quebec and joins the crew of a Mediterranean cruise ship as their photographer. He is searching for his father, who left his mother before Sebastian was born, and who he discovered is one of the ship’s captains. Already angry at this man for abandoning him and his mother, Sebastian leads a massive revolt in the cabin crew when he sees his father’s dictator-like way of running the ship. Tensions rise, a class war emerges, and Sebastian makes a discovery about the Glacier that could ruin the entire crew.
I flew through the audiobook for this on some longer commutes earlier this month and really enjoyed the pacing of the story, as once the action started it never seemed to stop. SPOILER: I was not expecting Sebastian to discover the ship was a human trafficking ring, but that especially made for a very tense second half! As a lover of Greek mythology, I felt some of the references and symbols in this book to be a bit too on the nose, and the ending was rushed with too little explanation of where all our side characters - so heavily featured throughout the story - ended up. However, I enjoyed this more than I can critique it, so it gets a spot on the ‘gram.
#TheRebelliousTide #CurrentlyReading #Bookstagram #Book2Baker #MiksPicks
I'm a day late for #BCBookDay, but I wanted to highlight this author and novel, one of my recent favourites. Eddy Boudel Tan had not been on my radar at all until the book club I'm in chose to read The Tiger and The Cosmonaut, and am I ever glad they did because, damn, I love this book. I actually read it twice before our meeting and picked up on so many little details the second time around which elevated the story that much more for me.
I was completely captivated by this story from page one, following Casper as he returns to his familial home after his father goes missing, uncovering details of his past, addressing generational traumas, racial and homophobic prejudices, reconnecting with his family and finding himself. Eddy Boudel Tan writes a beautiful story, full of some of the most charming descriptions I've ever read, which had me really invested in the story and what happened to each of the characters.
I've seen some reviewers take issues with the believability of certain plot points, but for me the story worked, and wrapped up in a very satisfying manner.
I can't wait to check out some more of of this authors stories.
5 cosmonauts out of 5 🧑🚀🧑🚀🧑🚀🧑🚀🧑🚀
Book Warehouse Main St presents An Asian Heritage Month Celebration of Authors with Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho, Eddy Boudel Tan, and Donna Seto.
The Astronaut Children of Dunbar Street is an intimate geopolitical memoir about a family separated by distance and borders, split between Taiwan and Canada in the wake of shifting global powers.
The Tiger and the Cosmonaut is a noirish page-turner about a mysterious disappearance and a moving portrait of a Chinese Canadian family navigating insecurities, expectations, and simmering anger in their small BC town.
Chinatown Vancouver is a colourful illustrated history of the buildings in Vancouver's Chinatown, celebrating the richness, diversity, and vibrancy of the Chinese community.
Doors at 6:30 pm, event starts at 7:00 pm. Free to attend and all are welcome.
