<![CDATA[Midnight At The Dragon Café (Alex Awards (Awards))]]>

false <![CDATA[Midnight At The Dragon Café (Alex Awards (Awards))]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174513294m/410991.jpg 1781407 6 Set in the 1960s, Judy Fong Bates’s much-talked-about debut novel is the story of a young girl, the daughter of a small Ontario town’s solitary Chinese family, whose life is changed over the course of one summer when she learns the burden of secrets. Through Su-Jen’s eyes, the hard life behind the scenes at the Dragon Café unfolds. As Su-Jen’s father works continually for a better future, her mother, a beautiful but embittered woman, settles uneasily into their new life. Su-Jen feels the weight of her mother’s unhappiness as Su-Jen’s life takes her outside the restaurant and far from the customs of the traditional past. When Su-Jen’s half-brother arrives, smouldering under the responsibilities he must bear as the dutiful Chinese son, he forms an alliance with Su-Jen’s mother, one that will have devastating consequences. Written in spare, intimate prose, Midnight at the Dragon Café is a vivid portrait of a childhood divided by two cultures and touched by unfulfilled longings and unspoken secrets. From the Hardcover edition. 1780233 2003 Midnight at the Dragon Cafe total:254|5:27|4:93|3:106|2:20|1:8| 254 873 360 62 1 1 false true Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Feb 10 20:41:53 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 20:49:17 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Mar 19 17:29:43 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 04:56:28 -0700 2009
At the age of six, Su-Jen is brought to Canada by her mother from China, to live in a small town just outside Toronto called Irvine. Su-Jen's father, Hing-Wun Chou has ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 09:28:14 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 09:45:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Nov 02 19:17:16 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 02 19:17:16 -0800 2008 The people behind the faces of the local Chinese-Canadian greasy spoon

With a quiet, unassuming elegance, Canadian-Chinese author Judy Fong-Bates sets the scene for her highly applauded debut novel, Midnight at the Dragon Café. Perhaps this story touched me more acutely than most of its readers, as...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Feb 27 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Apr 12 15:29:53 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 15:31:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Feb 07 19:40:32 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 15:31:01 -0800 2008 Reads" book for Multnomah County - a program they do every February
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