Perfect Books are excited to have Tamara Jong in the store, in conversation with Ellen Chang-Richardson, to launch her debut memoir, Worldly Girls, named by CBC as a top nonfiction pick for the fall!

Tamara Jong’s powerful memoir documents the slow unravelling of her connection to her faith and the tragic history of her fractured family, shining a light into the dark corners of memory that have haunted her well into adulthood.

TAMARA JONG is a Tiohtià:ke (Montréal) born writer of Chinese and European ancestry. Her work has been published in the Humber Literary Review, Room Magazine, and The Fiddlehead, and has been both long and shortlisted for various creative nonfiction prizes. She is a graduate of The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University, and a former member of Room Magazine's collective. She currently lives and works on Treaty 3 territory, the occupied and ancestral lands of the Haudenosaunee, Anishinabewaki, Attiwonderonk, and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (Guelph, ON). Worldly Girls is her first book.

ELLEN CHANG-RICHARDSON is an award-winning poet, hybrid genre writer, judicial assistant, and editor of Taiwanese and Chinese Cambodian descent. Co-founder of the experimental Riverbed Reading Series, they are a creative nonfiction editor for long con magazine and a member of Room’s editorial collective. Their debut collection, Blood Belies (Wolsak & Wynn), was shortlisted for the 2025 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Their second collection, Through the Eyes of Another, is forthcoming in Spring 2027.