Chinkstar

When Kwong goes missing just days before his crowning performance and their mom gets wounded in crossfire, Run, Kwongs brother, finds himself, with his sidekick, Ali, in the middle of a violent battle between Red Deer’s rival gangs.

With wit, verve and a flair for the rap lyric, Jon Chan Simpson mashes up the (graphicless) graphic novel and the second-generation-immigrant narrative to forge a bold new vision of what the novel can be.