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  Midnight At The Dragon Café (Alex Awards (Awards))

  by Judy Fong Bates

  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... (more)
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  All That Matters

  by Wayson Choy

  "A new book from Choy is an event. His writing has a quiet integrity and an exquisite grace."— Maclean's Winner of the 2005 Trillium Book Award, finalist for the 2004 Giller Prize, and long-listed for the 2006 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, All That Matters is the eagerly anticipated sequel to Wayson Choy's award-winning first novel, The Jade Peony. Kiam-Kim is three years old when he arrives by... (more)