Diamond Grill
by Fred Wah
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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 birds 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 show more publication, with an all new Afterword by the author and the same pagination as the original publication. This is the third title in NeWest'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. Winner of the Howard O'Hagan Award for the Best Collection of Short Fiction 1997. show lessTags
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2.5/5
Fun. Could have been better. I honestly don't know what to say. Most of the 'chapters' left me feeling nothing. Some were interesting. Food, identity, Canada, China, race, mixed-race... Great stuff... but Fred just didn't grab me.
Fun. Could have been better. I honestly don't know what to say. Most of the 'chapters' left me feeling nothing. Some were interesting. Food, identity, Canada, China, race, mixed-race... Great stuff... but Fred just didn't grab me.
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Common Knowledge
- Original publication date
- 1996
- Important places
- Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
- Epigraph
- You were part Chinese I tell them,
They look at me. I'm pulling their leg.
So I'm Chinese too and that's why my name is Wah.
They don't really believe me. That's o.k.
When you're not "pure" you just make it up.
--from Waiting for Saskatchewan - Dedication
- for Fred, Connie, and Ethel
for family. - First words
- In the Diamond, at the end of a long, green vinyl asile between booths of chrome, Naugahyde, and Formica, are two large swinging wooden doors, each with a round batch of face-sized window.
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
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