What We All Long for

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. They were born in the city from people born elsewhere. What We All Long For follows the overlapping stories of a close circle of s econd-generation twenty-somethings living in downtown Toronto. There Tuyen, a lesbian avant-garde artist and the daughter of Vietnamese parents whofv e never recovered from losing one of their children in the crush to board a boat out of Vietnam in the 1970s. Tuyen defines herself in opposition to j ust about everything her family believes in and strives for. Shefs in love with her best friend Carla, a biracial bicycle courier, who's still reelin g from the loss of her mother to suicide eighteen years earlier and who mus t now deal with her brother Jamal's latest acts of delinquency. Oku is a ja zz-loving poet who, unbeknownst to his Jamaican-born parents, has dropped o ut of university. He is in constant conflict with his narrow-minded and ver bally abusive father and tormented by his unrequited love for Jackie, a gor geous black woman who runs a hip clothing shop on Queen Street West and dat es only white men. Like each of her friends, Jackie feels alienated from he r parents, former hipsters from Nova Scotia who never made it out of subsid ized housing after their lives became entangled with desire and disappointm ent. The four characters try to make a life for themselves in the city, supporti ng one another through their family struggles. Therefs a fifth main character, Quy, the child who Tuyenfs parents lost in Vietnam. In his first-person narrative, Quy describes how he survived i.

Product Info

ISBN: 067697693X

ISBN-13: 9780676976939

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Year: 2005

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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