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When Henry Robinson’s first daughter, Starr, is born with Williams Syndrome, he swears to devote his life to making her happy. More than 20 years later, we find Henry working at Frankie’s Funhouse, where he repairs the animatronic band that Starr loves, wrestling with her attempts at living outside the family home. His wife, Kathy, wishes he would allow Starr more independence, hoping that Henry will turn his attention a little more to their own relationship and to their other daughter, who is pregnant.

Fortune Cookie is a diary-style novella set in Montreal during the turbulent year of 1989. This subversively feminist work, aimed at young women, is told in first-person vignettes—written in the informal and often humorous voice of 24-year-old Robin. Robin’s vignettes are at times intercut with news headlines, which highlight the political and social events of the year–including Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Montreal Massacre.