num_pages: 256
description: Life is never as perfect as it seems.Tensions that have lurked beneath the surface of a shiny new subdivision rise up in new fiction from the author of the Toronto Book Awardshortlisted The Wondrous WooThe suburbs of the 1970s promised to be heaven on earthnew houses new status happiness guaranteed. But in a Scarborough subdivision populated by newcomers from all over the world a series of sudden catastrophic events reveals that not everyones dreams come true. Moving from house to house Carrianne Leung explores the inner lives behind the tidy front gardens and picture-perfect windows always returning to June an irrepressible adolescent Chinese-Canadian coming of age in this shifting world. Through June and her neighbours Leung depicts the fine line where childhood meets the realities of adult life and examines with insight and sharp prose how difficult it is to be true to ourselves at any age.
language: None
title: That Time I Loved You
publisher: HarperCollins Publishers