Kevin Chong – författare

In every sport there are a select few competitors that come to define the excellence that all others must forever aspire to. In “the sport of kings,” there is one that stands alone. Northern Dancer is not only a Canadian legend, but the cornerstone of his breed. It has been estimated that 70 percent of the thoroughbreds alive today are his descendants, which includes the majority of the horses running in the biggest races around the world. His offspring received recordbreaking prices on the auction floor.

While much has been written about Northern Dancer’s prepotence as a sire, this book is the only one devoted to his 1964 campaign, which saw him win two of the Triple Crown races in the U.S. and Canada’s Queen’s Plate. In that time, he captured the attention of the world and the hearts of all Canadians. In Northern Dancer, the world-famous horse comes alive through the people whose lives he touched: E.P. Taylor, the visionary industrialist whose web of business placed him at the end of every consumer transaction for every Canadian and made him the subject of scorn; Horatio Luro, the dapper Argentinean trainer (and tango dancer, pilot, and race car driver) who was notorious for his affairs with Hollywood starlets and his tender treatment of horses; and Bill Hartack, a wildly successful jockey whose squabbles with the press and his inability to conceal his unvarnished truth from influential owners and trainers was, by 1964, beginning to affect his career. Using news clippings from 1964 and interviews, this book offers novelistic detail not only on the remarkable 1964 Triple Crown and Queen’s Plate races, but also revisits, fifty years later, the era in which Canada was struggling to establish an identity, needing, more than anything, a national hero.

An Asian American man meets the sister he never knew he had: a wistful novel about family, loss, and forgiveness.

At first it was the dead rats. They started dying in cataclysmic numbers, followed by other city creatures. Then people begin experiencing flu-like symptoms as well as swellings in their lymph nodes. The citizenry reacts in disbelief when the diagnosis comes in and later, when a quarantine is imposed on the increasingly terrified city.Inspired by Albert Camus’ classic 1948 novel, Kevin Chong’s The Plague follows Dr. Bernard Rieux’s attempts to fight the treatment-resistant disease and find meaning in suffering. His efforts are aided by Megan Tso, an American writer who is trapped in the city while on a book tour, and Raymond Siddhu, a city hall reporter at a daily newspaper on its last legs from the latest round of job cuts.Told with dark humor and an eye trained on the frailties of human behavior, Chong’s novel explores themes in keeping with Camus’ original vision--heroism in the face of futility, the psychological strain of quarantine—but fraught with the political and cultural anxieties of our present day.

Kevin Chong has grand plans. He draws up a to-do list of major milestones that will give him the life he always wanted—and the life that will inspire awe and envy in his friends. Things like settling down and starting a family; learning a foreign language; getting a tattoo. But these grand plans go out the window when Chong makes an unconventional decision: he''s going to buy a racehorse. Not the whole thing—he''ll become part—owner of the horse. Just don''t ask him which part.Thus Chong meets Blackie, the racehorse that will win his heart, even if she doesn''t always win on the track. He meets Randi, the cantankerous and foul-mouthed horse trainer with a heart of gold. He meets an assorted array of characters who work, live and drink at the track—and, one by one, the items on his to-do list are crossed out and replaced with horse-related ambitions. His goals are a bit more humble (cussing like a track worker replaces learning a foreign language), but his life has gained new meaning.The story is infused with the noise, excitement and faded glamour of the horse-racing world. It is strewn with fascinating tidbits about the history and tradition of this

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize “A nuanced, complex, and highly original novel.” —Charles Yu, National Book Award–winning author of Interior Chinatown A fresh, unique work of metafiction that follows a graphic novelist who loses control of his own narrative when he attempts to write the story of his fraught upbringing in 1980s Chinatown.In a Chinatown housing project lives twelve-year-old Benny, his ailing grandmother, and his strange neighbor Constantine, a man who believes he’s a reincarnated medieval samurai. When his grandmother is hospitalized, Benny manages to survive on his own until a social worker comes snooping. With no other family, he is reluctantly taken in by Constantine and soon, an unlikely bond forms between the two. At least, that’s what Yu, the narrator of the story, wants to write. The creator of a bestselling comic book, Yu is struggling with continuing the poignant tale of Benny and can’t help but interject from the present day, slowly revealing a darker backstory. Can Yu confront the demons he’s spent his adult life avoiding or risk his own life...and Benny’s? “Instructive as it is inspiring, The Double Life of Benson Yu is a phenomenal example of a writer taking real risks in order to reveal and reckon with deep-rooted, tormenting truths as a means of moving forward. Kevin Chong has crafted a novel that will get your heart pumping, mind jumping, and, best of all, fingers turning” (Mateo Askaripour, New York Times bestselling author).

Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize “A nuanced, complex, and highly original novel.” —Charles Yu, National Book Award–winning author of Interior Chinatown A fresh, unique work of metafiction that follows a graphic novelist who loses control of his own narrative when he attempts to write the story of his fraught upbringing in 1980s Chinatown.In a Chinatown housing project lives twelve-year-old Benny, his ailing grandmother, and his strange neighbor Constantine, a man who believes he’s a reincarnated medieval samurai. When his grandmother is hospitalized, Benny manages to survive on his own until a social worker comes snooping. With no other family, he is reluctantly taken in by Constantine and soon, an unlikely bond forms between the two. At least, that’s what Yu, the narrator of the story, wants to write. The creator of a bestselling comic book, Yu is struggling with continuing the poignant tale of Benny and can’t help but interject from the present day, slowly revealing a darker backstory. Can Yu confront the demons he’s spent his adult life avoiding or risk his own life...and Benny’s? “Instructive as it is inspiring, The Double Life of Benson Yu is a phenomenal example of a writer taking real risks in order to reveal and reckon with deep-rooted, tormenting truths as a means of moving forward. Kevin Chong has crafted a novel that will get your heart pumping, mind jumping, and, best of all, fingers turning” (Mateo Askaripour, New York Times bestselling author).

The Paradox of Us is a heartbreaking, luminous YA sci-fi romance about a girl who builds a machine to save her mother from dying, only to fall in love with the boy twenty years in the past whose death was the very reason her mother lived long enough to have her.Lena, seventeen, brilliant, and hollowed out by grief, constructs a temporal communicator in a university basement lab. One night the static parts and a boy's voice slips through from October 2004. His name is Elias. He is kind, lonely, and scheduled to die in a fire in eight days.Lena saves him.Reality begins to unravel.Every moment Elias continues to breathe in 2004, Lena starts to fade from existence in 2024. Photographs erase her. Memories forget her. Her own reflection hesitates half a second behind the mirror.What began as a desperate attempt to rewrite her mother's death becomes the most impossible love story ever told: two teenagers trying to hold on to each other across twenty years while the universe itself demands payment in the form of one of their entire lives.Told in slow, luminous prose that begs to be read aloud, The Paradox of Us is a standalone novel about sacrifice, memory, and the terrifying mercy of a love willing to burn itself out so the other person gets to live.

You are not a victim of your family tree.For decades, we've been told that our health is determined by the genetic lottery - that if heart disease, diabetes, or memory loss runs in the family, it's only a matter of time before it catches up to us.But modern science has revealed a startling truth: genetics loads the gun, but lifestyle pulls the trigger.This guide breaks down the revolutionary science of epigenetics into a practical, jargon-free guide. It reveals that the vast majority of chronic diseases - up to 80 percent - are not inevitable. They are the result of the cumulative signals we send our bodies every day through food, movement, sleep, and stress.This is not a book about fear, strict dieting, or becoming a fitness obsessionist. It is a guide to the "e;one percent"e; changes that compound over time to protect your healthspan.Inside, you will discover:The Myth of Genetic Destiny: Why your DNA is a menu of possibilities, not a script.The 4 Pillars of Prevention: How to fuel, move, rest, and connect in ways that lower inflammation and silence disease genes.The "e;Normal"e; Trap: Why doing what the average person does leads to average (poor) health, and how to swim upstream.The Longevity Toolkit: Practical checklists for upgrading your pantry, scripts for your doctor, and protocols to reset your body after a stressful day.Stop waiting for a diagnosis to start caring. Learn how to listen to your body's whispers before they turn into screams, and build a future where you don't just live longer - you live better.