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Reviews for Belinda's Rings

Reading in Bed: Review by Laura Frey
Stunning debut. Unflinching. Courageous. [...] Corinna Chong is a startling new talent on the CanLit scene, and I can’t wait to see what she’ll do next. (full review)
The Telegraph-Journal: Review by Chad Pelley
[...] the product of a talented writer with an exceptional knack for crafting characters. And her detail-rich, specific diction is evocative, stylistically distinct and authenticates everything about these characters’ worlds. (full review)
The Edmonton Journal and The Calgary Herald: Reviews by Michael Hingston
It’s a novel about family members who, despite some wildly different frames of reference, keep searching for common ground. (full review)
The Coastal Spectator: Review by Yasuko Thanh
[...] the novel is [...] about the power of imagination, and the fictions we maintain about ourselves, in order to keep on being the people we are. [...] If you love reading about mothers and daughters, this is a book for you. (full review)
The Winnipeg Review: Review by Joanne DeCosse
Belinda’s Rings’ elaborate web of interconnected images and themes make it overall a terrific and evocative read, particularly for those interested in the themes of motherhood and family. (full review)
Quill and Quire: Review by Dana Hansen
Chong's talent is undeniable. [...] her future in CanLit is assured. (full review)
The Globe and Mail: Review by Chad Pelley
[...] as vibrant as it is original [...] the story succeeds in capturing family tensions, and the bonds that trump those tensions. The cast and folly in Belinda’s Rings is a great recipe for an offbeat summer read. (full review)
Beyond the Fields We Know: Review by Cate Kerr
One does not expect to encounter so exquisite a lyric voice in such a plot and setting (and a first novel at that), but just about every word in this book sings, and it was lovely reading from the first page to the last. (full review)
The Daily Herald Tribune: Review by Alexis Kienlen
 The book is funny, touching and illuminating, and the reader never quite knows which way the story is going to go. (full review)
Tuck Magazine: Review by Val B. Russell
As a debut novel, Belinda’s Rings is far above average. Original and quirky. Corinna Chong has created something special with this book [...]. (full review)
The Fiddlehead: Review by Rebecca Geleyn
Belinda's and Grace's separate interests stock the novel with marvellous displays of the florid patterns in crop circles and the unnerving qualities of certain sea species. [...] Chong's prose flows so seamlessly that it is easy to overlook the novel's careful structure of interweaving stories. [...] Grace's character is real, her voice is fresh and colourful, and she proves to be a real teenager and a charmingly unreliable narrator. [...] A novel subtly charged with emotion, Belinda's Rings is unmistakably a noteworthy read." (full review)
Asian American Literature Fans: Review by Stephen Hong Sohn
Chong’s style is certainly original and the novel never flags; a fine addition to the (Asian) Canadian/ mixed race canon of literature. (full review)
EVENT Magazine: Review by Elizabeth McCausland
Corinna Chong's Belinda's Rings [is] especially intriguing for the ways [it] plays with and against the formal and thematic expectations of coming-of-age tales. [...] Chong [...] suggest[s] that we are always coming of age, figuring life out, and that is something to celebrate rather than fear. (full review)
Literary Press Group of Canada: Review by Taryn Boyd
Belinda's Rings by Corinna Chong is one of my favourite recent reads [...]. The tension between mother and daughter is [...] just right, and I adored Grace's pluck. Chong's writing is funny, controlled, and she makes Grace totally endearing.
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