Aboud, Najah.
I, Who Did Not Die: A Sweeping Story of Loss, Redemption and Fate.
Co-author: Zahed Haftlang; with Meredith May.
New York: Regan Arts, 2017.
DS318.85 .H335 2017
Akhavan, Payam.
In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey.
Toronto: Anansi, 2017.
JC571 .A343 2017
Al Ethari, Lamees.
Waiting for the Rain: An Iraqi Memoir.
Toronto: Mawenzi House, 2019.
DS79.66.E84 A3 2019
Al Kontar, Hassan.
Man at the Airport: How Social Media Saved My Life–One Syrian’s Story.
New Westminster, BC: Tidewater Press, 2021.
Al Rabeeah, Abu Bakr.
Homes: A Refugee Story.
With Winnie Yeung.
Calgary: Freehand Books, 2018.
HV640.5 .I75 A47 2018
Ali, Kazim.
Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water.
Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane, 2021.
E-book (Access restricted to members of the university community)
Alsaadi, Nawar.
The Bull of Heaven: The Story of a Boy Who Grew up in a War Zone to Become a French Stock Market Millionaire Fighting for Shareholder Justice in North America.
[unnamed: The Author], 2014.
HG5154.3 A47 2014
Al-Soyalee, Kamal.
Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes.
Toronto: HarperCollins, 2012.
PN4913.A425 A3 2012
Anand, Madhur.
This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves.
Toronto: Penguin Random House Canada, 2020.
PS8601.N31 T45 2020
Askar, Saoussan.
From Far Away.
Co-author: Robert Munsch. Illustrated by Michael Martchenko.
Toronto: Annick Books, 1995.
Reissued 2017 with new art by Rebecca Green.
Ayed, Nahlah.
A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter’s Journey From Refugee Camp to the Arab Spring.
Toronto: Viking, 2012.
PN4913.A494 A3 2012
Aziz, Omer.
Brown Boy: A Memoir.
New York: Scribner, 2023.
E-book (Access restricted to members of the university community)
Bae, Paul.
You Suck, Sir: Chronicles of a High School English Teacher and the Smartass Students Who Schooled Him.
Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020.
Series: Robin’s Egg Books.
Bahari, Maziar.
Rosewater: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival.
With Aimee Molloy.
First published as: Then They Came for Me. 2011
Toronto: Random House Canada, 2014.
DS318.9 .B35 2014
Bains, Tara Singh.
The Four Quarters of the Night: The Life-Journey of an Emigrant Sikh.
With Hugh Johnston.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1995.
FC3849.R53 Z49 1995
Also available as an E-book (Access restricted to members of the university community)
Bates, Judy Fong.
The Year of Finding Memory: A Memoir.
Toronto: Random House Canada, 2010.
PS8553.A827 Z478 2010
Barzanji, Jalal.
The Man in Blue Pyjamas: A Prison Memoir.
Based on a translation by Sabah A. Salih.
Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2011.
DS79.66 .B367 A313 2011
Begamudré, Ven.
Extended Families: A Memoir of India.
Regina: Coteau Books, 2017.
PS8553 .E342 Z46 2017
Benmergui, Ralph.
I Thought He Was Dead: A Spiritual Memoir.
Hamilton: James Street North Books, 2021.
PN1992.4.B428 A3 2021
Bhatia, Nav.
The Heart of a Superfan: A Memoir of Grit, Love, Family and Basketball.
With Tamara Baluja.
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2024
publishing in Feb. 2024
Boullata, Issa J.
The Bells of Memory: A Palestinian Boyhood in Jerusalem.
Westmount, Quebec: Linda Leith Publishing, 2014.
DS109.93 .B67 2014
Campbell, Thanh.
Orphan 32.
Hamilton, Ont.: Hope for the World Productions, 2013.
DS559.8 .C53 C36 2013
Chang, Sophia.
The Baddest Bitch in the Room: A Memoir.
New York: Catapult, 2020.
Chariandy, David.
I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to my Daughter.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2018.
PS8605 .H3685 Z46 2018
Chiang, Hung-Min.
Home Is Where the Water Is.
Charlottetown, PEI: Island Studies Press, 2020.
Chitpin, Stephanie.
Keep My Memory Safe: Fook Soo Am, The Pagoda, A Memoir.
Montreal: Baraka Books, 2023.
Chong, Kevin.
My Year of the Racehorse: Falling in Love with the Sport of Kings.
Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2012.
SF334 .C56 2012
Chong, Tommy.
Cheech & Chong: The Unauthorized Autobiography.
Gallery Books, 2008.
Chong, Vivian.
Dancing After TEN.
Vivian Chong and Georgia Webber.
Seattle: Fantagraphic Books, 2020.
PN6727.C497 Z46 2020
Chopra, Shiv.
Corrupt to the Core: Memoirs of a Health Canada Whistleblower.
Caledon, ON: Kos Publishing Inc., 2009.
Choy, Wayson.
Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and almost Dying.
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2009.
PS8555 .H6658 Z534 2009
Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood.
Toronto: Penguin Books, 2000.
PS8555 .H6658 Z53 2000
Dashtgard, Annahid.
Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion and Reconciliation.
Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2019.
FC106 .I5 D37 2019
Dib, Kamal.
Beirut Culture Shock: A Canadian Tale.
Beirut: Editions Dar An-Nahar, 2013.
Dosanjh, Ujjal.
Journey After Midnight: A Punjabi Life from India to Canada.
Figure 1 Publishing, 2016.
Speaking Tiger Press, 2023. (paperback reprint)
Fraser, Tara Sidhoo.
When My Ghost Sings.
Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2023.
E-book (Access restricted to members of the university community)
Fung, Melissa.
Under the Afghan Sky: A Memoir of Captivity.
Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011.
DS371.43 .F86 A3 2011
Gatchalian, C. E.
Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man.
Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2019.
PS8613 .A875 Z46 2019
Garebian, Keith.
Pain: Journeys Around My Parents.
Oakville, Ont.: Mosaic Press, [2000].
PN1708 .G3 A3 2000
Ghadery, Hollay.
Fuse.
Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2021.
E-book (Access restricted to members of the university community)
Ghulam, Elen.
Don’t Shoot! … I Have Another Story to Tell You.
ihath publishing, 2016.
Gill, Charlotte.
Almost Brown: A Mixed-race Family Memoir.
Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2023.
HT1523 .G535 2023
Gill, Rupinder.
On the Outside Looking Indian: How My Second Childhood Changed My Life.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2011.
FC106 .E2 G55 2011
Goel, Sima.
Fleeing the Hijab: A Jewish Woman’s Escape From Iran.
Renfrew, Ont.: General Store Publishing House, 2014.
Goh, Chan Hon.
Beyond the Dance: A Ballerina’s Life.
With Cary Fagan.
Toronto: Tundra Books, 2002.
Habib, Samra.
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir.
Toronto: Viking, 2019.
HQ75.4 .H38 A3 2019
Haftlang, Zahed.
I, Who Did Not Die: A Sweeping Story of Loss, Redemption and Fate.
Co-author: Najah Aboud; with Meredith May.
New York: Regan Arts, 2017.
DS318.85 .H335 2017
Haidar, Ensaf.
Raif Badawi: The Voice of Freedom: My Husband, Our Story.
Co-author: Andrea C. Hoffmann; translated by Shaun Whiteside.
London: Little Brown, 2016.
DS233.526 .B23 H2513 2016
Henein, Marie.
Nothing But the Truth: A Memoir.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2021.
KE416.H46 A3 2021
Ho, Tuan (as told by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch).
Adrift at Sea: A Vietnamese Boy’s Story of Survival.
Art by Brian Deines.
Toronto: Pajama Press, 2016.
PZ10 .S58 A47 2016
Hoang, Jolie Phuong.
Three Funerals for My Father.
New Westminster, B.C.: Tidewater Press, 2021.
E-book (Access restricted to members of the university community)
Honda, Keiko.
Accidental Blooms
Qualicum Beach, BC: Caitlin Press, 2023.
forthcoming
Househ, Mowafa Said.
Under the Nakba Tree: Fragments of a Palestinian Family in Canada.
Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2021.
FC106.P35 H68 2022
Also available from the publisher’s website as a free PDF.
Hoy Price, Lily.
I Am Full Moon: Stories of a Ninth Daughter.
Victoria, B.C.: Brindle & Glass, 2009.
FC3849 .Q48 Z49 2009
Hui, Ann.
Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada’s Chinese Restaurants.
Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2019.
TX945.4 .H85 2019
Jaggernath, Awadh.
From Innocence to Impudence [Growing up in Trinidad, The Story of One Family].
Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 2016.
F2121 .J33 2016
From Explorations to Enlightenment [Reflections of the Glamorous Summers Experienced at Bigwin Island Resort on the Lake of Bays, Muskoka].
[Place?]: Awadh N. Jaggernath, 2019.
Jahanbegloo, Ramin.
Time Will Say Nothing: A Philosopher Survives an Iranian Prison.
Regina: University of Regina Press, 2014.
DS318.84 .J35 2014
Jang, Lucia.
Stars Between the Sun and Moon: One Woman’s Life in North Korea and Escape to Freedom.
Co-author: Susan McClelland.
Toronto: Douglas & McIntyre, 2014.
E-book (Access restricted to members of the university community)
Jauhal, Pritam Singh.
A Soldier Remembers: Lieutenant Colonel Pritam Singh Jauhal, World War II Veteran: A Memoir.
Co-author: Sharanjit Kaur Sandhra.
Abbotsford, BC: Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies, University of the Fraser Valley, 2013.
The Centre has been renamed the South Asian Studies Institute.
The publication may be available as an open access pdf e-book.
Jin Guo: Voices of Chinese Canadian Women
The Women’s Book Committee, Chinese Canadian National Council.
Toronto: Women’s Press, 1992.
FC106 .C5 J56 1992
Jones, Kimberley.
East Within West: A Memoir.
[Toronto]: Kimberley Jones, 2022.
Kai Ellis, Jackie.
The Measure of My Powers: A Memoir of Food, Misery and Paris.
[Canada]: Appetite by Random House, 2017.
Khalili, Hassan.
A Life Spent Listening.
St. John’s, NL: Breakwater Books, 2022.
Koul, Scaachi.
One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter.
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2017.
Available: Popular Reading KOU
Kurdi, Tima.
The Boy on the Beach: My Family’s Escape From Syria and Our Hope for a New Home.
Toronto: Simon & Schuster Canada, 2018.
FC106 .S98 Z7 2017
Kwan, Michael David.
Things that Must not be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China.
Toronto: Macfarlane, Walter & Ross, 2000.
DS777.5195 .K82 A3 2000
Ladha, Mansoor.
Memoirs of a Muhindi: Fleeing East Africa for the West.
Regina: University of Regina Press, 2017.
PN4913 .L33 A3 2017
Lau, Evelyn.
Inside Out: Reflections of a Life So Far.
Toronto: Anchor Canada, 2002, c.2001.
PS8573 .A7815 Z53 2002
Runaway: Diary of a Street Kid.
Toronto: HarperCollins, 1989.
HQ799 .C22 V36 1989
Lee, Edwin S.
Sum Yung Guys: Untold Stories About Growing Up in Vancouver’s Chinatown.
[Surrey, BC: Edwin Lee], 2014.
FC3847.26 .L44 S95 2014
Lee, Jen Sookfong.
Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart: A Memoir.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2023.
P94.5.C572 C35 2023
Lee, J. J. (James-Jason).
The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 2011.
TT505 .L44 A3 2011
Lee, Jessica J.
Turning: A Year in the Water.
Toronto: Hamish Hamilton, 2017.
Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan’s Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family’s Past.
Toronto: Hamish Hamilton, 2020.
FC106.T35 L44 2020
Lee, Sang-Chul.
The Wanderer: [The Autobiography of a United Church Moderator].
Co-author: Erich Weingartner.
Winfield, BC: Wood Lake Books, 1989.
BX9883 .L44 A3 1989
Lim, John.
At Grandmother’s House.
Montreal: Tundra Books, 1977.
Merchants of the Mysterious East.
Montreal: Tundra Books, 1981.
Lim, Sing.
West Coast Chinese Boy.
Montreal: Tundra Books, 1991, c1979.
Lin, Paul T. K.
In the Eye of the China Storm: A Life Between East and West.
Co-authored with Eileen Chen Lin
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2011.
DS779.29 .L55 A3 2011
Liu, Simu.
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story.
Toronto: HarperCollins, 2022.
PN2308.L58 A3 2022
Lou, Ethan.
Field Notes from a Pandemic: A Journey Through a World Suspended.
[Toronto]: Signal/McClelland & Stewart, 2020.
RA644.C67 L69 2020
Lui, Elaine.
Listen to the Squawking Chicken: When Mother Knows Best, What’s a Daughter to Do? A Memoir (Sort of).
Toronto: Random House Canada, 2014.
PN4913 .L85 A3 2014
Luo, Katherine.
The Unceasing Storm: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
Madeira Park, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2018.
E-book (Access restricted to members of the university community)
Maclear, Kyo.
Birds Art Life.
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2017.
QL686.5 .O5 M176 2017
Unearthing.
Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2023.
PS8625.L435 Z46 2023
Maharaj, Joshna.
Take Back the Tray: Revolutionizing Food in Hospitals, Schools, and Other Institutions.
Toronto: ECW Press, 2020.
TX943 .M34 2020
Mak, Starkie.
Coming to Canada.
Toronto: At Bay Press, 2021.
Mapa, Lorina.
Duran Duran, Imelda Marcos, and Me: A Graphic Memoir.
Wolfville, NS: Conundrum Press, 2017.
PN6733 .M34 Z85 2017
Martis, Eternity.
They Said this would be Fun: Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2020.
LC212.43.C2 M37 2020
Massoudi, Mehrnaz.
Never Without Love: A Memoir.
Toronto: Inanna Publications, 2019.
DS318.84 .M37 2019
Matin, Sumaiya.
The Shaytan Bride: A Bangladeshi Canadian Memoir of Desire and Faith.
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2021.
E-book (Access restricted to members of the university community)
Memuna.
Where Flowers Bloom: [Memories of Burma].
[Saskatchewan: Memuna], 2015.
Mikado, Tayo.
This Grief Thing F**king Sucks.
Altona, MB: Friesen Press, 2022.
Miki, Art.
Gaman=Perseverance: Japanese Canadians’ Journey to Justice.
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2023.
Mohammed, Rahaf (as told to Sally Armstrong).
Rebel: My Escape from Saudi Arabia to Freedom.
Toronto: HarperCollins, 2022.
HQ1730 .M64 2022
Mukbil, Huda.
Agent of Change: My Life Fighting Terrorists, Spies, and Institutional Racism.
Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023.
e-book (Access restricted to members of the university community)
The Muslimah Who Fell to Earth: Personal Stories by Canadian Muslim Women.
Edited by Saima S. Hussain.
Toronto: Mawenzi House, 2016.
HQ1170 .M88 2016
Nadir, Leilah.
The Orange Trees of Baghdad: In Search of My Lost Family.
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2007.
DS79.66.N33 A3 2007
Nakano, Takeo.
Within the Barbed Wire Fence: A Japanese Man’s Account of His Internment in Canada.
New edition.
Toronto: James Lorimer & Co., 2012.
FC106 .J3 N34 2012
Naked, Bif.
I, Bificus.
[New York; Toronto]: HarperCollins, 2016.
Nawaz, Zarqa.
Laughing All the Way to the Mosque.
Toronto: Collins Canada, 2014.
PN1992.4 .N29 A3 2014
Nemat, Marina.
After Tehran: A Life Reclaimed.
Toronto: Viking Canada, 2010.
DS318.84 .N46 A3 2010
Prisoner of Tehran: A Memoir.
Toronto: Viking, 2007.
DS318.84 .N46 A3 2007
Ngo, Wilson, and Rose Wilson.
Journey Home: From Cambodia to Canada and Beyond.
Vancouver: Granville Island Publishing, 2022.
Nuri, Ayub.
Being Kurdish in a Hostile World.
Regina: University of Regina Press, 2017.
DS59 .K86 N87 2017
Ondaatje, Michael.
Running in the Family.
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1982.
PS8579 .N2 Z53 1982
Also available as an audio book and reprinted in the New Canadian Library.
Pachai, Bridglal.
Accidental Opportunities: A Journey Through Many Doors: An Autobiography.
Halifax, N.S.: Roseway Publishing, 2007.
FC2327.1 .P33 A3 2007
My Africa, My Canada.
Hantsport, N.S.: Lancelot Press, 1989.
Parsi, Arsham.
Exiled for Love: The Journey of an Iranian Queer Activist.
Arsham Parsi with Marc Colbourne.
Halifax, N.S.: Roseway Publishing, 2015.
HQ75.8 .P373 A3 2015
Pawagi, Manjusha.
Love and Laughter in the Time of Chemotherapy.
Toronto: Second Story Press, 2017.
PS8581 .A8463 Z46 2017
Peters, Russell.
Call Me Russell.
Russell Peters with Clayton Peters and Dannis Koromilas.
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2010.
PN2308 .P48 A3 2010
Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi.
Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home.
Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2015.
PS8631 .I46 Z53 2015
Premji, Munira.
Choosing Hope: 1 Woman, 3 Cancers: A Story of Inspiration, Resilience, and Courage.
Toronto: Mawenzi House, 2020.
E-book (Access restricted to members of the university community)
Premji, Zul.
Malaria Memoirs: My Life Journey as a Public Health Doctor in Tanzania.
Toronto: Mawenzi House, 2021.
E-book (Access restricted to members of the university community)
Quan, Elizabeth.
Beyond the Moongate: True Stories of 1920s China.
Toronto: Tundra Books, 2013.
Once Upon a Full Moon.
Toronto: Tundra Books, 2007.
Quan: My Life, My Art: A Collection of Autobiographical Essays and Poetry.
Toronto: Sounds Canadian, 1999.
Rafiee, Maryam.
Dear Baba: A Story Through Letters.
[New Orleans?]: UNO Press, 2019.
HV9785.2 .R33 2019
Raffi.
The Life of a Children’s Troubadour: An Autobiography.
Vancouver: Homeland Press, 1999.
ML420.R137 A3 1998
Raj, Rupert.
Dancing the Dialectic: True Tales of a Transgender Trailblazer.
[North Charleston, S.C.]: CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2017.
HQ77.8 .R25 A3 2017
Ratnavel, Roy.
Prisoner #1056: How I Survived War and Found Peace.
Toronto: Viking, 2023.
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Ray, Lisa.
Close to the Bone: A Memoir.
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2020.
First published: HarperCollins India, 2019.
Saeed, Jamal.
My Road From Damascus: A Memoir.
Translated by Catherine Cobham.
Toronto: ECW Press, 2022.
E-book (Access restricted to members of the university community)
Safdie, Moshe.
If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2022.
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Saltzman, Devyani.
Shooting Water: A Mother-Daughter Journey and the Making of a Film.
Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2005.
PN1997.2 .W38 S24 2005
Sandhu, Gian Singh.
An Uncommon Road: How Canadian Sikhs Struggled Out of the Fringes and into the Mainstream.
Vancouver: ECHO Storytelling, 2018.
FC106 .S55 S26 2018
Sarin, Vic.
Eyepiece: Adventures in Canadian Film and Television.
Calgary: Durvile Publications, 2017.
PN1998.3 .S27 A3 2017
Sarkar, Prasanta.
Shackles of Independence: A Memoir of an Unknown Indian.
Bloomington: Xlibris Corporation, 2013.
Shah, Chandrakant P.
To Change the World: My Work with Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in Canada.
Toronto: Mawenzi House, 2023.
Shan, Jacqueline.
The Jacqueline Shan Story: Pursuing a Dream, Never Giving Up.
Toronto: Barlow Book Publishing, 2014.
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Sharif, Omar, Jr.
A Tale of Two Omars: A Memoir of Family, Revolution, and Coming Out During the Arab Spring.
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2021.
Sharifirad, Yadi
The Flight of the Patriot (Escape from Revolutionary Iran)
With PJ Reece.
Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2010.
UG626.2.S49 A3 2010
Sheikh, Nazneen.
Moon Over Marrakech: A Memoir of Loving Too Deeply in a Foreign Land.
Toronto: Cormorant Press, 2010.
Tea and Pomegranates.
Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2005.
Shimotakahara, Leslie.
The Reading List: Literature, Love and Back Again.
Willowdale, Ont.: Stories That Bind, 2011.
PS8637 .H525 Z47 2011
Shrivastava, Meenal.
Amma’s Daughters: A Memoir.
Athabasca: Athabasca University Press, 2018.
Also available from the publisher as a free PDF
Siddiqui, Haroon.
My Name is Not Harry: A Memoir.
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2023.
Singh, David.
A Passion to Succeed.
Toronto: ECW Press, 2006.
Singh, Harnarayan.
One Game at a Time: My Journey from Small-town Alberta to Hockey’s Biggest Stage.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2020.
GV742.42.S52 A3 2020
Singh, Jagmeet.
Love & Courage: My Story of Family, Resilience, and Overcoming the Unexpected.
Toronto: Simon & Schuster Canada, 2019.
FC656 .S56 A3 2019
Singh, Julietta.
The Breaks.
Toronto: Coach House Books, 2021.
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2021.
Available to members of the university community as an e-book
Singh, Lilly.
How to be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life.
New York: Ballantine Books, 2017.
CT275 .S52 A3 2017
Singh, Sonya K.
Lightning Strikes Twice: Secret Confessions of a Career-woman-turned-caregiver.
[Canada] : Iguana Books, 2019.
Stone Voices: Wartime Writings of Japanese Canadian Issei.
Edited by Keibo Oiwa.
Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1991.
DS810 .N3 C27 1991
Surendra, Rajiv.
The Elephants in My Backyard.
Toronto: Random House Canada, 2016.
Swann, Alice.
My Journey from Saigon to Ottawa.
Bloomington, IN: WestBow Press, 2018.
FC106.V5 S92 2018
Tang, Thien.
Other Other Side of the Sun: The True Story of One Refugee’s Journey.
Lawrencetown Beach, N.S.: Pottersfield Press, 2018.
HV640.5 .V5 T36 2018
Thanh, Yasuko.
Mistakes to Run With: A Memoir.
Toronto: Hamish Hamilton, 2019.
PS8639 .H375 z466 2019
Tharmathurai, Logathasan.
The Sadness of Geography: My Life as a Tamil Exile.
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2019.
electronic book (Access restricted to TMU community members)
Thomson, Grace Eiko.
Chiru Sakura: Falling Cherry Blossoms
Halfmoon Bay, BC: Caitlin Press, 2021.
FC106.J3 Z7 2021
Tobimatsu, Kimiko.
Kimiko Does Cancer: A Graphic Memoir.
Illustrated by Keet Geniza.
Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020.
ebook available to the university community
Toorpakai, Maria.
A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid From the Taliban in Plain Sight.
Toronto: Viking, 2016.
GV1003.62 .T66 A3 2016
Troeung, Y-Dang.
Landbridge: Life in Fragments.
Toronto: Alchemy by Knopf Canada, 2023.
FC106.C26 T76 2023
Tsubouchi, David.
Gambatte: Generations of Perseverance and Politics: A Memoir.
Toronto: ECW Press, 2013.
FC3077.1 .T78 2013
Tsui, Nelson M.
Serious Court: Confessions of a Prison Judge.
Burnaby, BC: W & Y Cultural Products, 2020.
HV8705 .T78 2020
Uppal, Priscila.
Projection: Encounters With My Runaway Mother.
Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2013.
PS8591 .P62 Z46 2013
Vahabzadeh, Peyman.
Exilic Meditations: Essays on a Displaced Life.
UK: H&S Media, 2013.
Vassanji, M. G.
And Home Was Kariakoo: A Memoir of East Africa.
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2014.
PS8593 .A87 Z462 2014
Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging.
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2024.
On Order
A Place Within: Rediscovering India.
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2008.
PS8593 .A87 Z47 2008
Velshi, M. H.
Conversations on Three Continents.
[U.S.A.]: Createspace, 2013.
Vij, Vikram.
Vij: A Chef’s One-way Ticket to Canada with Indian Spices in his Suitcase.
Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2017.
Vuong-Riddick, Thuong.
The Evergreen Country: A Memoir of Vietnam.
Regina: Hagios Press, 2007.
DS556.93 .V865 A3 2007
Williams-Wong, Carol.
Letters to My Grandchildren: Memoirs of a Dragon Lady. [Volume 1-3.]
Toronto: Under the Auspices of the Toronto Hakka Seniors Association, 2014.
FC106.C5 W55 2014
Wills, Jenny Heijun.
Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2019.
HV875.7.C2 W55 2019
Wong, Dukesang.
The Diary of Dukesang Wong: A Voice From Gold Mountain.
Edited with commentary by David McIlwraith. Diary translated by Wanda Joy Hoe.
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2020.
FC3850.C5 W66 2020
Wong, Jan.
Apron Strings: Navigating Food and Family in France, Italy, and China.
Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane, 2017.
GT2850 .W64 2017
Also available to members of the university community as an e-book
Beijing Confidential: A Tale of Comrades Lost and Found.
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2007.
DS795.3 .W66 2007
Out of the Blue: A Memoir of Workplace Depression, Recovery, Redemption and Yes, Happiness.
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RC537 .W667 2012
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