Larissa Lai is the author of nine books including the novels Salt Fish Girl and The Tiger Flu. She’ll read from her new novel, The Lost Century, for the first time today, right now, at the Real Vancouver Writers’ Series! Recipient of the Jim Duggins Novelist’s Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, the Astraea Award, and the Tiptree Honor Book and finalist for seven more, she is currently Maria Zambrano Fellow in the Department of English and Philology at the University of Huelva in Spain.