Jen Sookfong Lee is a bestselling author whose writing spans fiction, memoir, poetry and books for young readers. Her acclaimed work includes The End of East, The Better Mother, The Conjoined, The Shadow List and Finding Home. Her memoir, Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart, became an instant bestseller, was named one of the best books of 2023 by The Globe and Mail and Apple Books Canada, and was a finalist for both the City of Vancouver Book Award and the Forest of Reading Evergreen Award.

Her most recent novel, The Hunger We Pass Down, traces five generations of women in a Chinese Canadian family and explores intergenerational trauma, motherhood, suppressed histories and the things families carry when painful truths remain unspoken. Born and raised in East Vancouver, Jen brings fierce honesty, humour and humanity to stories about identity, belonging and the complicated ways our past continues to live within us.

Every family passes something down.

Stories. Traditions. Resilience. Expectations. Sometimes silence.

Drawing from the themes of her newest novel, The Hunger We Pass Down, bestselling author Jen Sookfong Lee explores what happens when the experiences of one generation are left for the next generation to carry. How do family histories shape who we become? What happens to pain that is never named? And how might telling the truth allow us to choose what we carry forward and what we finally put down?

Through a deeply personal and story-driven reflection, Jen invites us to consider the unseen inheritances that have shaped our lives and the courage it takes to interrupt the patterns we no longer want to pass along.