Disappearing Moon Cafe

DISAPPEARING MOON CAFE.

Literature & Fiction

Lee, Sky

Literary

SEATTLE: SEAL. 1991

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.

United States

Douglas & McIntyre, Ltd

Bellydancer: Stories

Raincoast Books, Press Gang Publishers

Kae Ying Woo attempts to piece together the tangled and hidden history of the Wong family, starting from 1892 when Wong Gwei left China for British Columbia

Howard E Seals

Traces four generations of a Chinese family through the experiences of patriarch Wong Gwei Chang, who struggles with poverty and racism in a new world; overbearing matriarch Lee Mui Lan, the owner of Vancouver Chinatown's largest restaurant; and a succession of daughters, daughters-in-law, and granddaughters. Reprint.

Seal Pr

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.
Each character, intimately drawn through Lee's richness of imagery and language, must navigate a world that remains inexorably "double" Chinese and Canadian. About buried bones and secrets, unrequited desires and misbegotten love, murder and scandal, failure and success, the plot reveals a compelling microcosm of the history of race and gender relations in this country.

Disappearing Moon Cafe (Landmark Edition)

NeWest Press

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