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Jenny Heijun Wills

Jenny Heijun Wills is the author of Everything and Nothing at All, a collection of personal essays, coming in August 2024 from Knopf Canada. Her first book, Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related: A Memoir (McClelland & Stewart) won the Manitoba Book Awards’ Eileen McTavish Sykes prize in 2020. She is an english professor at the University of Winnipeg.

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    As a Korean adoptee, my relationship with Asian Heritage Month is complicated

    Once my mother inquired if I'd like to be buried in Canada or Korea. What stands out from that question isn't my response. What lingers is the fact that she asked me at all. That’s because for much of my life, this acknowledgement that I'm from elsewhere has been averted.
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