Lennie Goodings, publisher of Virago Press and one of Margaret Atwood’s editors, stops by the table. A couple of years ago, Anansi bought the Canadian rights to Ai Mi’s novel Under the Hawthorne Tree from Virago; it is now a Heather’s Pick at Indigo, and has sold 15,000 copies in Canada. “Do you have another Chinese novel that I need to buy?” MacLachlan asks.

This books was translated by Anna Holmwood.