Midnight at the Dragon Cafe / Judy Fong Bates.
Publication details: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart , c2004.Description: 317 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780771010972 (pbk.)
- C813/.54 21
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Fiction | Hanover Public Library Shelves | FIC BATE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31906001155655 |
Set in the 1960s, Judy Fong Bates’s much-talked-about debut novel is the story of a young girl, the daughter of a small Ontario town’s solitary Chinese family, whose life is changed over the course of one summer when she learns the burden of secrets. Through Su-Jen’s eyes, the hard life behind the scenes at the Dragon Café unfolds. As Su-Jen’s father works continually for a better future, her mother, a beautiful but embittered woman, settles uneasily into their new life. Su-Jen feels the weight of her mother’s unhappiness as Su-Jen’s life takes her outside the restaurant and far from the customs of the traditional past. When Su-Jen’s half-brother arrives, smouldering under the responsibilities he must bear as the dutiful Chinese son, he forms an alliance with Su-Jen’s mother, one that will have devastating consequences. Written in spare, intimate prose, Midnight at the Dragon Café is a vivid portrait of a childhood divided by two cultures and touched by unfulfilled longings and unspoken secrets.
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