[2] He and his family moved to Edmonton, Alberta in 2014, where Yeung was his English as a second language teacher.
[3] She encouraged him to tell his own life stories as a way to practice English and began recording them.
[2] The co-authored memoir was self-published in 2016, before being picked up for commercial republication by Freehand Books in 2018.
[4] It was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 2018 Governor General's Awards,[5] and for the 2019 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.
[6] It was selected for the 2019 edition of Canada Reads, where it was defended by Chuck Comeau.