Banana Boys (Heung Jiu Jei)

Description: Shortlisted for the 1999 Asian-Canadian Writer's Workshop Award What is the nature of Banana? To Luke, Dave, Mike, and Sheldon, it's a curious predicament brought on by upbringing -- growing up yellow on the outside, white on the inside. They're together to pay their last respects to Rick, the one Banana Boy who seemed to have it all, but was found dead in his living room, apparently of suicide. The tragedy that has reunited the Banana Boys becomes the point from which we are introduced to the intertwined stories of a group of young friends caught in cultural and social limbo. Not really Chinese and not quite Canadian, the ... (more)

Manufacturer: Cormorant Books
Release date: 20 August 2013
ISBN-10 : 1896332153 | ISBN-13: 9781896332154

Tags: Canada (1), Identity (1), Canadian (1), Terry Woo (1), Chinese-Canadians (1)

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