num_pages: 317
description: Sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, always compelling, this extraordinary first novel chronicles the women of the Wong family from frontier railroad camps to modern-day Vancouver. As past sins and inborn strengths are passed on from mother to daughter to granddaughter, each generation confronts, in its own way, the same problems — isolation, racism, and the clash of cultures. Moving effortlessly between past and present, between North America and China, Sky Lee weaves fiction and historical fact into a memorable and moving picture of a people’s struggle for identity.
language: English
title: Disappearing Moon Cafe
titlecomplete: Disappearing Moon Cafe
genres: Fiction, Historical, Asia, Canada, China, School, Adult, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Audiobook
ratings_count: 2043
places: Vancouver, British Columbia, China
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
publisher: Douglas & McIntyre