Lisa Ray Instagram – Repost from @cbcbooks using @RepostRegramApp – Model, actor, TV host and former #CanadaReads panellist Lisa Ray’s memoir Close to the Bone is being released on Nov. 3, 2020 and we have a first look at the cover and an early excerpt. • Lisa Ray is one of India’s most successful cover models, has been a host of Top Chef Canada and an actor who was in the Oscar-nominated film Water, the Amazon Prime series Four Shots More Please and the upcoming A.R. Rahman film 99 Songs. She also defended David Chariandy’s novel Brother on Canada Reads 2019. In 2009, she was diagnosed the rare blood cancer multiple myeloma. She revealed her diagnosis on the red carpet at the Toronto International Film Festival, and shared her journey on a blog called The Yellow Diaries. Ray is now sharing her story — from her rise to the top of the model and acting world after being discovered at 16, how her cancer turned everything upside down and the highs and lows in between — in her new memoir, Close to the Bone. Close to the Bone will be published on Nov. 3, 2020. • To read the excerpt or to find out more about Lisa Ray, click the link in our story or head to cbcbooks.ca