num_pages: 336
description: 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.
language: English
title: Dandelion
publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press