Thursday, April 30, 2015

About Disappearing Moon Cafe







••••••••••••••About Sky Lee•••••••••••••••
Sky Lee was an asian born Canadian in 1952 at Port Alberni, British Columbia. She went to the University of British Columbia, B.A.; Douglas College, diploma in Nursing. Her career(s) included being a nurse as well as a proficient, bestselling writer. In 1983, Lee first was an illustrator of a children’s book, Teach Me to Fly Skyfighter! Like her books to come, this book was an interesting look into exploring growing as a Chinese-Canadian in a Asian Canadian/Anglo Canadian Community. She then published her first book, Disappearing Moon Cafe,in 1990. This is the book we are focusing on in this blog. This book was the winner of the 1990 City of Vancouver Book Award and was a finalist for the 1990 Governor General’s Award. Then, still in the same year, she published Telling It: Women and Language Across Culture, which explores issues of racism and homophobia amongst lesbian, native, and Asian Canadian women. Lee published Bellydancer: Stories in 1994. This book was a collection of 15 short stories. This book explored feminist themes and the like. She also has a list of short stories including West Coast Line, The Asianadian, Kinethis, and Makara.
••••••••••Disappearing Moon Cafe••••••••
Sometimes funny, sometimes scandalous, always riveting, this extraordinary first novel traces the lives and passionate loves of 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.” Sky Lee
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“If Gabriel Garcia Marquez had been Canadian-Chinese, and a woman, ONE HUNDRED YEARS of SOLITUDE might have come out a little bit like this.” Washington Post Book World




Explore the world of Sky Lee in Disappearing Moon Cafe for a memorable trip you won’t forget!

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