When Eddy Boudel Tan first pitched his novel The Tiger and the Cosmonaut , his editor looked at him and said, "So, tell me, what is this book about?"

“This is a book about Asian rage," Boudel Tan told his editor.

"I had never really articulated or described my book quite in that way before, but if my goal was to catch [my editor's] attention it worked. He was intrigued and he asked me to elaborate."

Boudel Tan did, explaining how the book was a depiction of the experience of being a second-generation immigrant in Canada, which he described as "feeling somewhat caught between cultures."

The Tiger and the Cosmonaut features a Chinese Canadian protagonist named Casper Han who is forced to travel back to the fictional B.C.-based remote town of Wilhem to uncover the mystery of his fat

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