Liew, Jamie Chai Yun creator author. text novel Fiction. Psychological fiction bcc 2022 2022 monographic eng Eng lis h

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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."-- / Jamie Chai Yun Liew. n-cn--- n-cn-bc Mothers and daughters Fiction Asians - Canada British Columbia Fiction Canadian fiction - 21st century Family secrets Fiction PR9199.4.L535 D36 2022 9781551528816 1551528819 NLC 210910 20260305151153.0 10034726 eng