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He understood. In the utter peace of the forests, he had met them all - uncles who had climbed mountain heights then fallen from them, uncles who had drowned in deep surging waters, uncles who had clawed to their deaths in the dirt of caved-in mines. By then, he wasn't afraid and they weren't alien any more. Like them, he would piece himself together again from scattered, shattered bone and then endure.
Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe
Disappearing Moon Cafe by SKY Lee
... originally published by Douglas & McIntyre ...
Sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, always riveting, this extraordinary first novel traces the lives and passionate loves of the women of the Wong family through four generations. 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 the clash of cultures -- and each evolves a little bit more.
Moving back and forth between past and present, between Canada and China, SKY Lee weaves fiction and historical fact into a memorable and moving picture of a people's struggle for identity.
Published February 1993.
I am so afraid of being found out for the coward I am. All my life, I've managed to mask it with ambition and diligence.
Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe
Instead of cultivating sociability, she had only solidified her inborn solitude. She'd always had this dreamy quality about her and maintained as thin a relationship to the world around her as she could get away with.
Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Cafe
Have you ever stopped to think that love is actually impossible? Maybe it’s just something which people have invented to torture themselves with. Love is elusive, doesn’t translate well into reality. When you have two people in so-called love, what do you really have but two people busily trying to enslave each other? The more in love they are, the more compulsively they strip each other of dignity, self-respect, identity, until there is nothing left.
Disappearing Moon Café, SKY Lee
Women’s strength is in the bonds they form with each other.
Sky Lee
