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Midnight at the Dragon Café / Judy Fong Bates.

by Bates, Judy Fong, 1949-

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McClelland & Stewart, 2004.

Families -- Fiction.

Small town life -- Fiction.

Chinese Canadians -- Ontario -- Fiction.

Ontario -- Fiction.

9780771010972 (trade pbk.)

317 p. ; 23 cm.

"Set in the 1960s, Judy Fong Bates’s much-talked-about debut novel is the story of a young girl, the daughter of a small Ontario town’s solitary Chinese family, whose life is changed over the course of one summer when she learns the burden of secrets. Through Su-Jen’s eyes, the hard life behind the scenes at the Dragon Café unfolds. As Su-Jen’s father works continually for a better future, her mother, a beautiful but embittered woman, settles uneasily into their new life. Su-Jen feels the weight of her mother’s unhappiness as Su-Jen’s life takes her outside the restaurant and far from the customs of the traditional past. When Su-Jen’s half-brother arrives, smouldering under the responsibilities he must bear as the dutiful Chinese son, he forms an alliance with Su-Jen’s mother, one that will have devastating consequences. Written in spare, intimate prose, Midnight at the Dragon Café is a vivid portrait of a childhood divided by two cultures and touched by unfulfilled longings and unspoken secrets."--back cover.

Domestic fiction.

Historical fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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