All that matters

ISBN: 9780385674867
ISBN: 0385674864
ISBN: 0385674864
Physical Description: electronic resource (eBook) remote 1 online resource.
Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : HarperCollins Canada, 2011.

Choy, Wayson 1939- (Author).

Summary: Set in Vancouver's Chinatown in the 1930s and 1940s, Choy continues the story of the Chen family household, this time narrated by First Son, Kiam-Kim. We first meet Kiam-Kim at the age of eight, staring at the yellowed photograph of his mother, who died in China when he was just a baby. Kiam-Kim, Poh-Poh (his larger-than-life grandmother) and Mr. Chen, his demure and honest father, journey to a new life in Vancouver's Old Chinatown. Following the dream of finding gold and then one day returning to China -- wealthy -- they, like many Chinese families around them, find themselves in a country on the brink of the Second World War, struggling to survive in a foreign land and keep alive the traditions of an older world.