Diamond Grill

Winner of the 1997 Howard O’Hagan
Short Fiction Award!

“In the Diamond, at the end of
a long green vinyl aisle between two booths of chrome, Naugahyde, and Formica,
are two large swinging wooden doors, each with a round hatch of face-sized
window. Those kitchen doors can be kicked with such a slap they’re heard all
the way up to the soda fountain.”

This story of family and
identity, migration and integration, culture and self-discovery is told through
family history, memory, and the occasional
recipe.

Diamond Grill is a rich banquet
where Salisbury steak shares a menu with chicken fried rice, and bird’s nest
soup sets the stage for Christmas plum pudding; where racism simmers behind the
shiny clean surface of the action in the cafe.

An exciting
new edition of Fred Wah’s best-selling bio-fiction, on the 10th anniversary of
its original publication, with an all new afterword by the author and the same
pagination as the original publication.

Diamond Grill
is the third title in NeWest Press’s Landmark Editions series. Landmark
Editions are previously published works by established and recognized western
Canadian authors that will enjoy new life in this series. Playing
Dead by Rudy Wiebe was the first book and The Almost
Meeting by Henry Kreisel was the second in the Landmark Editions
Series. NeWest is proud to offer this series as a strong addition to the
heritage of Western Canadian literature.