Very Vancouver

“Very Vancouver is a heartwarming reminder of the city’s layered history and community spirit, beautifully reflecting its diverse voices and unique neighbourhood cultures, resilient even amidst the hustle of real estate and unaffordability. With its stories of immigrant and working-class survival and achievement, Very Vancouver highlights the often underappreciated aspects of our history.” — Ken Lum, OC DFA, multimedia artist
“A rare and refreshing portrait of Vancouver. Christopher Cheung takes us beyond the pretty skylines and into the extraordinary lives of the people who quietly give the city its soul.” — Uytae Lee, creator and host of About Here
“Reading Very Vancouver is like eavesdropping at dinner tables, shop counters, and food courts, listening in on the conversations in Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean, Tagalog, and Punjabi, and having a guide to shepherd us through these worlds within worlds. This book provides insights into the overlooked, the unglamorous, and the beautiful ordinary.” — Greg Girard, author of City of Darkness and Phantom Shanghai
“Very Vancouver, told with Christopher Cheung’s bottomless curiosity and love for his hometown, is full of people and places many of us just walk by without a thought, with stories that we have never heard. Luckily, now we have Christopher, and this book, to tell us what we’ve been missing.” — Sophie Lui, Global BC News anchor
“A delight to read. As I compared Christopher Cheung’s memories of Vancouver with my own — and his generation’s experiences with my own — I was struck by his masterful storytelling and how he combines a journalist’s eye for detail with a philosopher’s perception of place and change.” — Michael Kluckner, author ofSurviving Vancouver

Christopher Cheung is the author of Under the White Gaze: Solving the Problem of Race and Representation in Canadian Journalism. He has worked as a reporter at The Tyee, Metro, and the Vancouver Courier and has received two Webster Awards, BC’s top journalism prize. He was born and raised in Vancouver, where he still lives.

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