Author: Roselle Lim

Roselle Lim writes contemporary fiction in which food, family expectations, and understated magic shape characters' choices. Vanessa Yu’s Magical Paris Tea Shop follows a young woman whose unwanted ability to read fortunes in tea leaves brings her to Paris with her aunt. The 2020 Berkley edition sits alongside Natalie Tan's Book of Luck and Fortune and Sophie Go's Lonely Hearts Club in Lim's bibliography. Those books share an interest in Chinese diasporic families, intergenerational ties, romance, and the sensory detail of meals and city life. Lim was born in the Philippines and lives in Canada near Lake Erie. Her background in visual art also informs the lush settings and carefully arranged food imagery that have become recognizable features of her fiction.