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050 4 _aPR9199.4.L535
_bD36 2022
100 _aLiew, Jamie Chai Yun,
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aDandelion
_c/ Jamie Chai Yun Liew.
264 1 _aVancouver, BC :
_bArsenal Pulp Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2022
300 _a262 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c23 cm
520 _a"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."--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aMothers and daughters
_vFiction.
650 0 _aAsians - Canada British Columbia Fiction.
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650 0 _aCanadian fiction - 21st century.
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650 0 _aFamily secrets
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655 7 _aFiction.
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655 0 _aPsychological fiction
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