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.

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SKY Lee is a feminist writer and artist. Her short stories have been published in one anthology, Vancouver Short Stories, and in numerous periodicals, including West Coast Line, The Asianadian, Kinesis, and Makara. She has illustrated one children's book, Teach Me How to Fly, Skyfighter.

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GRACE LYNN KUNG is a Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Performance by a Lead Actress in a Comedy for the spy series InSecurity. Her other credits include: fighting in a resistance in HBO's reimagining of Fahrenheit 451, lobbying with Jessica Chastain in Miss Sloane, inciting violence aboard Star Trek Discovery, aiding and abetting in Mary Kills People, shaking down Congress in Designated Survivor, cultivating Mars in The Expanse, facing down Chucky in Cult of Chucky, crying profusely in Slings & Arrows, and running a speakeasy in Frankie Drake Mysteries. Grace has also performed The Vagina Monologues in Oranjestad, Aruba, and toured nationally with Kim's Convenience. She is the model for a character in The Doozers and, if you've played Far Cry 4, she's yelled at you. Her directorial debut, A False Sense of Security, won Special Jury Mention at the Asian Film Festival of Dallas.

In addition to acting, Grace has studied naturopathic medicine in the UK and holds two Certificates of Distinction for Speech and Drama from Trinity College London.

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• Winner, Vancouver Book Award
• Short-listed, Governor General's Literary Award

“A feisty, complex, and award-winning first novel.” —Booklist

“This ambitious and vastly entertaining first novel follows four generations of a troubled Chinese-Canadian family through its gradual and often painful assimilation and eventual disintegration … The lively, often riotous spirit of Disappearing Moon Cafe is never lost in the epic sprawl. This is a moving, deeply human tale about the high price of assimilation, the loneliness of being of two cultures but no longer really belonging to either and the way in which the sordid secrets of the past can cast long, tragic shadows … If Gabriel Garcia Marquez had been Canadian-Chinese, and a woman, A Hundred Years of Solitude might have come out a little bit like this.” — Washington Post Book World