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The End of East (Paperback)
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A moving portrait of three generations of the Chan family living in
Vancouver's Chinatown Sammy Chan was sure she'd escaped her family
obligations when she fled Vancouver six years ago, but with her
sister's upcoming marriage, her turn has come to care for their
aging mother. Abandoned by all four of her older sisters, jobless
and stuck in a city she resents, Sammy finds herself cobbling
together a makeshift family history and delving into stories that
began in 1913, when her grandfather, Seid Quan, then eighteen years
old, first stepped on Canadian soil. The End of East weaves in and
out of the past and the present, picking up the threads of the Chan
family's stories: Seid Quan, whose loneliness in this foreign
country is profound even as he joins the Chinatown community; Shew
Lin, whose hopes for her family are threatened by her own misguided
actions; Pon Man, who struggles with obligation and desire; and Siu
Sang, who tries to be the caregiver everyone expects, even as she
feels herself unravelling. And in the background, five little girls
grow up under the weight of family expectations. As the past
unfolds around her, Sammy finds herself embroiled in a volatile
mixture of a dangerous love affair, a difficult and duty-filled
relationship with her mother, and the still-fresh memories of her
father's long illness. An exquisite and evocative debut from one of
Canada's bright new literary stars, The End of East sets family
conflicts against the backdrop of Vancouver's Chinatown - a city
within a city where dreams are shattered as quickly as they're
built, and where history repeats itself through the generations.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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