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The better mother / Jen Sookfong Lee.
In 1958, 8-year-old Danny Lim, on an errand to buy cigarettes for his father, bumps into Miss Val behind a nightclub in Vancouver's Chinatown. Danny is enraptured with her sequined garters and silk robe, and Val, touched by his fascination gives him a pack of cigarettes and her silk belt. Years later, Danny spends his days working as a wedding photographer and his nights cruising Stanley Park. He realizes the key to understanding himself lies in connection to Miss Val, and he is determined to find her. Set mostly in Vancouver in 1982, when AIDS was spreading rapidly, this novel brims with undeniable tragedy, but resounds with the power of friendship, change and truth.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307399502 (hc.)
- ISBN: 0307399508 (hc.)
- ISBN: 9780307399519 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 347 p. ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto : Knopf Canada, c2011.
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| General Note: | Novel. |
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| Subject: | Self-actualization (Psychology) > Fiction. Stripteasers > Fiction. Identity (Psychology) > Fiction. Vancouver (B.C.) > Fiction. British Columbia > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Canadian fiction. Women's fiction. General fiction. |
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