Crash Landing by Li Charmaine Anne

Jay Wong is spending the last languid days of summer 2010 trying to land a kickflip and begging for something (anything!) to make her senior year differentto finally give her some stories worth telling. When she meets Ash Chan, it seems like she's getting what she asked for. Ash is confident, intensely independent, and hell on a skateboardnothing like anyone Jay knows and exactly how she wishes she could be.

Offering to film Ash's submission to an upcoming skate contest introduces Jay to a side of Vancouver she's never seen and gives her the chance to push back against the expectations placed on her. But Ash has a secret, and Jay is increasingly desperate to figure it out. As things between them ride the fine line between friendship and something more, Jay has to decide just how much Ash will impact all the choices she still has to make about where she's going and who she wants to become. (From Annick Press)

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Li Charmaine Anne is a writer with a BFA from the University of British Columbia in Creative Writing and English Literature. Crash Landing is their debut novel.