Denison Avenue is a 2023 novel by written by Christina Wong and illustrated by Daniel Innes. Using mixed media, the novel follows Wong Cho Sum, an elderly Chinese-Canadian widow, as she navigates the rapidly changing Chinatown-Kensington district of Toronto, Ontario following her husband's sudden and unexpected death.[1]
On behalf of Booklist, Audrey Huang offered the novel a starred review and highlighted how the novel is "saturated with a sense of poignancy and grief". While calling the novel "multi-faceted" and "truly special", Huang praised "Innes’ detailed and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations" which serve as "eye-catching complements to Wong’s writing".[2]
Denison Avenue was a shortlisted finalist for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction[3][4] and was defended by Naheed Nenshi in the 2024 edition of Canada Reads.[5]
^Blumberg-Kason, Susan (2023-05-01). ""Denison Avenue" by Christina Wong and Daniel Innes". Retrieved 2024-03-05.
DenisonAvenue is a 2023 novel by written by Christina Wong and illustrated by Daniel Innes. Using mixed media, the novel follows Wong Cho Sum, an elderly...
complications from her brain tumor. Friends and relatives gathered on DenisonAvenue on April 29, 2012, for memorial services in her honor. Before his arrest...
names of Denison Square, DenisonAvenue, Bellevue Avenue, as well as Major, Robert, Borden and Lippincott streets. His grandson George Taylor Denison III was...
The original road up to the homestead is now known as DenisonAvenue in Toronto. The Denison family had land holdings in west Toronto, with the family...
worked as a lamplighter, where he walked up and down Scranton road and Denisonavenue lighting and snuffing out the street lights for which he earned $16...
just west of the W.R. Allen Expressway (Allen Road) on Sheppard Avenue West. Denison Armoury is the headquarters of 4th Canadian Division (formerly Land...
2024 edition of Canada Reads, advocating for the illustrated novel DenisonAvenue by Christina Wong and Daniel Innes. Nenshi and two other Canadian delegates...
Kansas State University. It is located on campus at the intersection of DenisonAvenue and Claflin Road, Manhattan, Kansas. The gardens are open to the public...
North Arlington Avenue. Her friend woke up at around 9:00 am and could not find Denison. A small bloodstain was found on the pillow Denison slept on that...
SR 161, arriving at 11th Avenue by August 1961. It took another year to construct the portion between 11th and 5th avenues, mainly due to the need to...
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nightlife and shopping establishments. Ossington Avenue is named after the ancestral Nottingham home of the Denison family (see Ossington), early land-owners...
and Willowdale Avenue. It was moved to the intersection of Liberty Street (now W. 33rd Street) and Newburgh Road (now DenisonAvenue) in 1851. In 1879...
Mystic, within the town of Stonington. It begins as DenisonAvenue and continues as Greenmanville Avenue. It passes by the Mystic Seaport and Old Mystic Village...
at the intersection of Avenue C and Sixth St Southeast. The location is the current site of high school football field, Denison Stadium. The distance from...
Details. City of Toronto. 2019. Retrieved 17 October 2019. "744 Duplex Avenue". City of Toronto's Heritage Property Search Details. City of Toronto. 2019...
Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site is located at 609 S. Lamar Avenue in Denison, Grayson County, in the U.S. state of Texas. President Dwight D. Eisenhower...
Geographic Names Information System: Main Avenue Viaduct "The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Main Avenue Bridge". Case Western Reserve University....
it functioned as an exit off of I-71 and side streets, terminating at Denison Road and serving businesses in the industrial valley. As traffic volumes...
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