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Lau, Doretta.
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Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Canada -- Fiction.
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Lau, Doretta.
Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.
Immigrants -- Canada -- Fiction.
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How does a single blade of grass thank the sun? : stories / Doretta
Lau
.
by
Lau
, Doretta.
Nightwood Editions, c2014.
Call #:
FICTION
LAU
Subjects
Identity (Psychology) --
Fiction
.
Immigrants -- Canada --
Fiction
.
ISBN:
088971293X (trade pbk.)
9780889712935 (trade pbk.)
Description:
119 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
God damn, how real is this? -- Two-part invention -- Days of being wild -- Rerun -- The boy next door -- Left and leaving -- O, woe is me -- Little Miss International Goodwill -- Robot by the river -- Writing in light -- Sad ghosts -- How does a single blade of grass thank the sun?
Summary:
An updated and whimsical new take on what it means to be Canadian.
Lau
alludes to the personal and political histories of a number of young Asian Canadian characters to explain their unique perspectives of the world, artfully fusing pure delusion and abstract perception with heartbreaking reality.
Lau
's stories feature the children and grandchildren of immigrants, transnational adoptees and multiracial adults who came of age in the 1990s--all struggling to find a place in the Western world and using the only language they know to express their hopes, fears and expectations.
Genre:
Short stories, Canadian.
Short stories.
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1
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