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Jack Wang’s debut novel The Riveter is a cross-cultural love story set in Vancouver and on European battlefields in the early 1940s .
The story focuses on Chinese-Canadian Josiah Chang , a riveter working on Victory ships in a Vancouver shipyard, and office worker Poppy Miller , a jitney-driving singer.
The Burrard Dry Dock was the busiest Canadian shipyard during the Second World War , employing 14,000 people, 1,000 of them women.
Wang travelled to Fort Benning , Georgia , where the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion trained prior to being shipped off to England .
Wang 's previous works include the award-winning short story collection We Two Alone.
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