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67/100Critics
10/100Scholars
Author:
Pik-Shuen Fung
Publisher:
One World
Date:
July 13, 2021
This is a story of an underrepresented Chinese identity, a transnational identity, one that is neither rootless nor completely uprooted. Told in space and monologue, traveling through present and past, it recounts memories and performs traditions with a weight and tenderness that only family can inspire.
What The Reviewers Say
Perhaps what is most noticeable upon opening Fung’s elegiac debut is all the white space. Paragraphs, phrases, words, even detached letters float across the pages, undoubtedly an ethereal reflection of lost chances, missing time, stolen opportunities, and spaces impossible to fill.
Fung’s vignette is the literary vignette, that lean, brief verbal descriptor of a place or object.
Spurred by her father’s illness, a Chinese Canadian woman explores her family’s past.
Fung’s moving debut follows an unnamed protagonist whose family immigrated to Vancouver from Hong Kong when she was three, right before the 1997 handover to Chinese rule.
