Well done to Ann Y.K. Choi and Lynne Kutsukake on making CBC Book’s 12 Best Canadian Debut Novels of 2016. From Choi, Kay’s Lucky Coin Variety portrays the life of a young Korean Canadian girl who will not give up on her dreams or her family. And Kutsukake’s The Translation of Love, tells the story of Aya Shimamura, a newly repatriated girl, as she helps a classmate find her missing sister in war-devastated Tokyo.