{"product_id":"9780771010972","title":"Midnight At the Dragon Cafe","description":"Set in the 1960s, Judy Fong Bates’s much-talked-about debut novel is the story of a young girl, the daughter of a small Ontario town’s solitary Chinese family, whose life is changed over the course of one summer when she learns the burden of secrets. Through Su-Jen’s eyes, the hard life behind the scenes at the Dragon Café unfolds. As Su-Jen’s father works continually for a better future, her mother, a beautiful but embittered woman, settles uneasily into their new life. Su-Jen feels the weight of her mother’s unhappiness as Su-Jen’s life takes her outside the restaurant and far from the customs of the traditional past. When Su-Jen’s half-brother arrives, smouldering under the responsibilities he must bear as the dutiful Chinese son, he forms an alliance with Su-Jen’s mother, one that will have devastating consequences. Written in spare, intimate prose, \u003ci\u003eMidnight at the Dragon Café\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid portrait of a childhood divided by two cultures and touched by unfulfilled longings and unspoken secrets.","brand":"Judy Fong Bates (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":42403889184928,"sku":"9780771010972","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_f12b2053-09db-4c5d-8fd0-adc24d18adb0.jpg?v=1732173901","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9780771010972","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}