Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Chop Suey Nation: The Legion Cafe and Other Stories from Canada's Chinese Restaurants by Ann Hui

1 review

pun1sher's review against another edition

4.5

Chop Suey nation is what I'd call a testament to the resilient nature of immigrants, in this case Chinese ones. There is a lot of love in these book - love of parents and love of children and also community love. Despite not being Chinese American nor immigrant, there were bits that deeply reminded me of my grandparents, who worked hard or left country for weeks or months at a time to make enough money to keep their families comfortable and be able to give my parents as much as they could in a country on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
I appreciated the photos at the end of the book :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Grief

Moderate: Xenophobia, Racial slurs, Abandonment, Cancer, and Medical content