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Dandelion / Jamie Chai Yun Liew.

Summary:

"Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award winner: an Asian woman traces her mother's past journey in order to learn who she really is and where she belongs. When Lily was eleven years old, her mother, Swee Hua, walked away from the family, never to be seen or heard from again. Now, as a new mother herself, Lily becomes obsessed with finding out what happened to Swee Hua. She recalls the spring of 1987, growing up in a small British Columbia mining town where there were only a handful of Asian families; Lily's previously stateless father wanted them to blend seamlessly into Canadian life, while her mother, alienated and isolated, longed to return to Brunei. Years later, still affected by Swee Hua's disappearance, Lily's family is nonetheless stubbornly silent to her questioning. But eventually, an old family friend provides a clue that sends Lily to Southeast Asia to find out the truth. Winner of the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers Award from the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop, Dandelion is a beautifully written and affecting novel about motherhood, family secrets, migration, isolation, and mental illness. With clarity and care, it delves into the many ways we define home, identity, and above all, belonging."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781551528823
  • ISBN: 1551528827
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource.
  • Publisher: Vancouver, British Columbia : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022.

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Formatted Contents Note:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Part 1: Before -- Clan -- Mountain -- Mouth -- Sun -- Walk -- Gold -- Foot -- Horn -- Open Box -- Compare -- Stop -- Scholar -- Table -- Bitter -- Ghost -- Part 2: Now -- Child -- Cauldron -- Woman -- Bolt of Cloth -- Shell -- Tongue -- Enclosure -- Inch -- Tooth -- Say -- Red -- Square -- Part 3: See -- Enter -- Private -- Dragon -- Arrive -- Lid -- Script -- Earth -- Fly -- Yellow -- Heart -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgments
Source of Description Note:
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 23, 2022).
Subject: Families > Fiction.
Emigration and immigration > Fiction.
British Columbia > Fiction.
Motherhood > Fiction.
Genre: Electronic books.

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