Sales and Market Bullets FOR FANS OF: 99% Invisible (podcast), Denison Avenue by Daniel Innes and Christina Wong (novel), City of Glass by Douglas Coupland (non-fiction), Chop Suey Nation by Ann Hui (non-fiction), Crackdown (podcast), and listeners of CBC's Early Edition , On the Coast , and Our Vancouver . A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR, JEN SOOKFONG LEE: "I first came across Chris's writing when I read his article on Crystal Mall, perhaps the weirdest mall in Metro Vancouver. At that time, I really wondered who Chris was and kept looking for his articles, and they did not disappoint. Everything from urban immigrant gardens to food security in Vancouver's poorest neighborhoods to an excellent piece on whiteness in Canadian media. Vancouver is desperate for a book that speaks to the real lived experiences of BIPOC communities, the working class, and the unhoused. Very Vancouver reads as especially true to my formative years and to the lives of so many of my friends, people who buy books if they seem relevant to them." CELEBRATING VANCOUVER: A way for readers familiar with Vancouver to celebrate what makes the city special, as well as those unfamiliar with Vancouver to get to know the "real" people, places, and quirky phenomena that make the multicultural metropolis what it is. Stories include Cheung suiting up to visit a big, steamy tofu factory, befriending a Syrian politician-turned-street vendor who fled the Assad regime, and hunting down the survivors of a Downtown Eastside hotel fire who rescued their cats from the flames.

THE RIGHT AUTHOR FOR THE JOB: Christopher Cheung was shortlisted for the BC and Yukon Book Awards (2025), won the Digital Publishing Award for Best Arts and Culture Storytelling (2024), and won the Jack Webster Award for Diversity and Inclusion (2021). Cheung has over 1K followers on Instagram, speaks Cantonese (the most commonly used language in the city after English), and was born and raised in Vancouver.