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Disappearing Moon Cafe
Disappearing Moon Cafe | Sky Lee
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Disappearing Moon Cafe was a stunning debut novel that has become a Canadian literary classic. An unflinchingly honest portrait of a Chinese Canadian family that pulses with life and moral tensions, this family saga takes the reader from the wilderness in nineteenth-century British Columbia to late twentieth-century Hong Kong, to Vancouver's Chinatown. Intricate and lyrical, suspenseful and emotionally rich, it is a riveting story of four generations of women whose lives are haunted by the secrets and lies of their ancestors but also by the racial divides and discrimination that shaped the lives of the first generation of Chinese immigrants to Canada.
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xicanti
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Today‘s hand pies were beef & bacon. I stuck ‘em right in the freezer against future need.

I keep going back and forth on the tagged book. I absolutely want the history it dishes out, but there‘s something off about Lee‘s multi-timeline approach. Each POV shift shuts me out for a wee stretch, even though I‘m usually fine with this sort of narrative. Sigh. #audiocooking

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xicanti
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I made hand pies to use up some older apples. Apple pie ain‘t my favourite, but I do love an opportunity to make and eat this pastry, and the members of the household who enjoy apple pie say the filling‘s good, too.

I read the first 16% of the tagged book while I worked, and I‘m afraid it hasn‘t grabbed me yet. Here‘s hoping it clicks tomorrow. #audiobaking

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xicanti @BkClubCare I think of you whenever I make pie! 3y
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EmmaMae
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A beautiful, in depth look at what drives four generations of Chinese Immigrant women. Lee captures the generational impact of the generations before, alongside the difficult circumstances these various women find themselves in.

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