02504cam a2200385 i 4500 10034726 CaAEU 20260305151153.0 210910t20222022bcca 000 f eng 20210390808 can GBC2E4971 bnb 020715551 Uk 9781551528816 paperback 1551528819 paperback on1267687364 exclude NLC eng rda YDX BDX NLC TOH OCLCO OCLCF VP@ UBC YDX G8V CNCAR UKMGB CDX AEVC English lac n-cn--- n-cn-bc PR9199.4.L535 D36 2022 Liew, Jamie Chai Yun, author. 26812 Dandelion / Jamie Chai Yun Liew. Vancouver, BC : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2022] ©2022 262 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm "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. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Asians - Canada British Columbia Fiction. 26813 Canadian fiction - 21st century. 26814 Family secrets Fiction fast (OCoLC)fst01737651 23679 Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787 22716 Psychological fiction lcgft 22456 lcc 0 0 lcc 0 0 TBS TBS 2026-03-05 0 2026-03-05 1 2026-03-05 1 SOON AVAILABLE 5389 5389