{"product_id":"disappearing-moon-cafe-9781926455815","title":"Disappearing Moon Cafe","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eDisappearing Moon Cafe\u003c\/i\u003e was a stunning debut novel that has become a Canadian literary classic. An unflinchingly honest portrait of a Chinese Canadian family that pulses with life and moral tensions, this family saga takes the reader from the wilderness in nineteenth-century British Columbia to late twentieth-century Hong Kong, to Vancouver's Chinatown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntricate and lyrical, suspenseful and emotionally rich, it is a riveting story of four generations of women whose lives are haunted by the secrets and lies of their ancestors but also by the racial divides and discrimination that shaped the lives of the first generation of Chinese immigrants to Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach character, intimately drawn through Lee's richness of imagery and language, must navigate a world that remains inexorably \"double\" Chinese and Canadian. About buried bones and secrets, unrequited desires and misbegotten love, murder and scandal, failure and success, the plot reveals a compelling microcosm of the history of race and gender relations in this country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLee, Sky:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - SKY Lee grew up in Port Albermi, BC. In the late 1960s, she was a founder of the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eDisappearing Moon Cafe\u003c\/i\u003e, was nominated for a Governor General's Literary Award and won the City of Vancouver Book Award. SKY Lee currently resides in Toronto.","brand":"NeWest Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50528409616658,"sku":"9781926455815","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6b4440a6-e100-4352-be89-c2cfee19b833.jpg?v=1731325754","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/disappearing-moon-cafe-9781926455815","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}