| Love and Vertigo Contributor(s): Teo, Hsu-Ming (Author) |
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ISBN: 1865082783 ISBN-13: 9781865082783 Publisher: Allen & Unwin OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00690597 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.1" W x 7.6" (0.65 lbs) 300 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For the first time in my life, I saw my mother in relation to her family, and I didn't recognise her any more . . . These Singaporean roots of hers, this side of her-and possibly of me too-were unacceptable. I was determined not to belong, not to fit in, because I was Australian, and Mum ought to be Australian too. The tug of her roots, the blurring of her role from wife and mother to sister and aunt, angered me. On the eve of her mother's wake, Grace Tay flies to Singapore to join her father and brother and her mother's family. Here she explores her family history, looking for the answers to her mother's death. This beautiful and moving novel steps between Singapore, Malaysia, and Australia, evoking the life, traditions, and tastes of a forceful Chinese family as well as the hardship, cruelty, and pain. Written in a fresh, contemporary voice tinged with biting humor, this is a story about resilience and a story about migration, but in many ways it is a story about parents' expectations for their children. |