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What We All Long for

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few weeks ago
The best book I read in 2005.
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few weeks ago
***SPOILER ALERT***This novel is about the lives of four friends in Toronto - all coming from different backgrounds all trying to find a certain thing. One of the characters is the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants (a doctor and an engineer) who could not become certified in Canada in their fields. The family is shell-shocked by the loss of a son while coming to Canada - he eventually makes his...more
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few weeks ago
I didn't enjoy this book. I love all her other works, but I was highly disappointed with this one. I did appreciate the shared experiences of the different identities that she weaved together, but I found that this book lacked the grace and poeticness of her other works. I was disappointed with her use of language. She didn't work her magic in this one for me.
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few weeks ago
Dionne Brand has done what no one else has and that is write about Toronto as the city really is. She said in READ Magazine, "Toronto has never happened before, and that's something incredible...it hasn't ever happened before because all of these different types of people, sharing different kinds of experiences, or what we call identities, have just not been in the same place together before."
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Editions
  • Binding: Paperback(336)
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312377711
  • ISBN-13: 9780312377717
  • ISBN-10: 067697693X
  • ISBN-13: 9780676976939
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