Disappearing Moon Café
A Novel

Enjoyed this story but found it a little hard to follow all the storylines listening to audio.......more

This is truly one of the saddest epics I’ve read in a long time— perhaps because it resonates so loudly with my own Cantonese Toisan (peasant, poor) paternal heritage, and the secrets that the upper generation relatives kept— all the way to their graves. We will never know the truth— as is revealed t......more

At first I was having a hard time keeping names and characters straight, but after a while and after flipping to the useless family tree at the beginning I just didn't care anymore. The characters were inter-changable, female characters were weak when young and nasty when old, male characters were w......more

As a feminist writer, Sky Lee uses the familiar Chinese-Canadian novel format of weaving together the stories of different generations, to highlight Chinese women's struggles for independence. The story hops between past and present, slowly piecing together all the dirty family secrets (suicide, adu......more

Very confusing and hard to keep up with people and time periods and relevance.......more