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This YA debut is a searing ode to queer identity, growing up in an immigrant community, and carving a place for yourself in the world with the help of your friends. 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 different—to 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 skateboard—nothing 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. A Counter-history Of Crime Fiction Takes A New Look At The Evolution Of Crime Fiction, Drawing On Material From The Middle Ages Up To The Early Twentieth Century, When The Genre Was Theoretically Defined As Detective Fiction. Considering 'criminography' As A System Of Interrelated, Even Incestuous, Sub-genres, Maurizio Ascari Explores The Connections Between Modes Of Literature Such As Revenge Tragedies And Providential Fictions, The Gothic And The Ghost Story, Urban Mysteries And Anarchist Fiction, While Taking Into Account The Influence Of Pseudo-sciences Such As Mesmerism And Criminal Anthropology. The Result Is An Inquiry Into The Nature Of A Genre Whose Formulaic Nature Has Not Prevented Imaginative, Not To Say Heretical, Variations On The Themes Of Crime And Detection.--jacket. Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Revising The Canon Of Crime And Detection -- Part I. Supernatural And Gothic -- Detection Before Detection -- Persecution And Omniscience -- Victorian Ghosts And Revengers -- Pseudo-sciences And The Occult -- Part Ii. Sensational -- The Language Of Auguste Dupin -- On The Sensational In Literature -- London As A 'heart Of Darkness' -- The Rhetoric Of Atavism And Degeneration -- The Age Of Formula Fiction -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Maurizio Ascari. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 197-212) And Index. This book takes a look at the evolution of crime fiction. Considering'criminography'as a system of inter-related sub-genres, it explores the connections between modes of literature such as revenge tragedies, the gothic and anarchist fiction, while taking into account the influence of pseudo-sciences such as mesmerism and criminal anthropology. Presents a study of crime fiction that takes a fresh look at its evolution, drawing on material from the Middle Ages onwards. This title explores the connections between revenge tragedies, the gothic, urban mysteries and anarchist fiction, and examines the influence of pseudo-sciences such as mesmerism and criminal anthropology.