Disappearing Moon Cafe

Disappearing Moon Cafe was
a stunning debut novel that has become a Canadian literary classic. An
unflinchingly honest portrait of a Chinese Canadian family that pulses with
life and moral tensions, this family saga takes the reader from the wilderness
in nineteenth-century British Columbia to late twentieth-century Hong Kong, to
Vancouver’s Chinatown.

Intricate and lyrical, suspenseful and
emotionally rich, it is a riveting story of four generations of women whose
lives are haunted by the secrets and lies of their ancestors but also by the
racial divides and discrimination that shaped the lives of the first generation
of Chinese immigrants to Canada.

Each character, intimately
drawn through Lee’s richness of imagery and language, must navigate a world
that remains inexorably “double”: Chinese and Canadian. About buried bones and
secrets, unrequited desires and misbegotten love, murder and scandal, failure
and success, the plot reveals a compelling microcosm of the history of race and
gender relations in this country.