A novel inspired by Little Women, set around MANCHESTER
What We All Long For
Location(s): Toronto
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Modern
A multi-cultural infusion following a close circle of second-generation twenty-somethings in downtown Toronto, and the secrets they hide. Tuyen, a lesbian avant-garde artists and daughter of Vietnamese parents is in love with her best friend Carla, a bi-racial bicycle courier.Oku, a poet who unbeknown to his Jamaican parents has dropped out of college, 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 changing Tuyen’s life.
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