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Chinatown, Vancouver, in the past due 1930s and '40s supplies the setting for this poignant first novel, informed through the brilliant and strong reminiscences of the three younger children of an immigrant family. Both experience a very different child years, depending on age group and gender, as they encounter the complexities of birth and loss of life, love and hate, kinship and otherness. Mingling with the realities of Canada and the horror of war will be the magic, ghosts, paper uncles and family secrets of Poh-Poh, or Grandmother, who is the heart and soul and pillar of the family. Wayson Choy's Chinatown is a community of unforgettable people who are "neither this nor that," neither completely Canadian nor Chinese language. But with each other's help, they endure hardship and heartbreak with grit and laughter.

Category: Historical