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- ↑ "Pik-Shuen Fung’s ‘Ghost Forest’ wins Amazon Canada First Novel Award". Toronto Star , June 1, 2022.
- ↑ "Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung wins $60K Amazon First Novel Award". CBC Books, June 1, 2022.
- ↑ Michelle Cyca, "Elegant elegy for an astronaut father; Universality of grief shines through in moving debut novel about a Chinese-Canadian family". The Province , July 18, 2021.
- ↑ "The best Canadian fiction of 2021". CBC Books, December 7, 2021.
- ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "Jesse Wente, Pik-Shuen Fung, Damhnait Monoghan named winners of 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer prizes". Quill & Quire , June 23, 2022.
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