<p>Praise for <i>Paper Teeth</i>:<br /><br />“<i>Paper Teeth</i> is an amazing swirl through imagination’s complicity with memory, both palpable and disappearing. The stories, some of them mini-novellas, are striking in how Lauralyn Chow improvises and juxtaposes the threads of quotidian particularities sewn into the folds of growing up. This is a hungry book and the hunger comes from deep need: love.”<br />~ Fred Wah, author of <i>Diamond Grill</i><br /><br />“Lauralyn Chow’s <i>Paper Teeth</i> is much more than a tasty dish of stories: it is a feast for the senses, a carnival of delicious detail. The stories here clench at memory’s slippery taste, the intense dynamics of a family balanced on the hyphen between expectation and hope, laughter and pride and forgiveness. These unforgettable characters will utterly entrance readers with their cat’s cradle of connection and adaptation, solitude and belonging.”<br />~ Aritha van Herk, author of <i>Restlessness</i><br /><br />"The Lees feel like a real family, because the way the story is told is probably the way the story of your own family is told: in memory and anecdote, in stories shouted across a big table laden with many dishes, and in whispered asides from the person sitting next to you. Whether you sample one or take in all ten courses, <i>Paper Teeth</i> is sure to satisfy."<br />~ Laura Frey, <i>Vue Weekly</i><br /><br />"[The stories] are a part of a whole, a narrative that is more than the sum of its parts in many ways."<br />~ Keith Cadieux, <i>The Winnipeg Review</i><br /><br />"With unique humour and style, <i>Paper Teeth</i> introduces us to a fresh voice in Canadian short fiction."<br />~ Alissa McArthur, <i>Room</i><br /><br />"Sweet tempered and humorous, these are stories of home and hearth."<br />~ Sarah Murdoch, <i>The Toronto Star</i><br /><br />"The book is a lively jumble, much like the city it is based on."<br />~ Stephanie L. Lu, <i>Canadian Literature</i></p>