Toggle Nav

Tel: +44 (0) 20 8829 3000

Email: customercare@turnaround-uk.com

What We All Long For

ISBN-13: 9780312377717

Author(s): Dionne Brand

Subjects: FA, FBA, FBC

Publisher: Macmillan US

Publisher Imprint: Griffin

Publication Date: 08-01-2009

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: Temporary unavailable

£20.99
What We All Long For

About the book

A multi-cultural infusion following a close circle of second-generation 20-somethings in downtown Toronto and the secrets they hide. Tuyen, a lesbian avant-garde artist and daughter of Vietnamese parents is in love with her best friend Carla, a bi-racial bicycle courier.Oku, a poet who unbeknownst to his Jamaican family has dropped out of college is tormented by unrequited love for Jackie, who runs a hip-hop store. Quy is Tuyen's long-lost brother, whose first person narrative describes the horror of Vietnamese refugee camps and his journey to Toronto change Tuyen's life.