What We All Long For

Description:

Dionne Brand powerfully delves into uncharted aspects of urban life, the bittersweetness of youth, and secrets families try to hide. Tuyen is an aspiring artist and the daughter of Vietnamese parents who've never recovered from losing one of their children while in the rush to flee Vietnam in the 1970s. She rejects her immigrant family's hard-won lifestyle, and instead lives in a rundown apartment with friends—each of whom is grappling with their own familial complexities and heartache.

subjects: Female friendship,  Fiction,  Refugees,  Canadian authors,  West indian canadian authors,  Women authors,  LGBTQ authors,  Vietnamese,  Friendship, fiction,  Toronto (ont.), fiction,  Fiction, general,  Fiction, family life,  Ontario, fiction,  Vietnamese fiction,  Roman vietnamien,  Amitié féminine,  Romans, nouvelles,  Réfugiés

People: Vietnamese,  Vietnamese immigrants,  Canadians

Places: Toronto (Ont.),  Canada,  Vietnam