Moon Cakes (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Andrea Louie
- First Published: 1995
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Girls, Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, New York, North America or North Americans, Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Alienation, Midwest, American Dream, Ethnic groups, Death or dying, Minorities, Identity, Bereavement or grief, Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Isolation
The Work
Moon Cakes, Andrea Louie’s first novel, builds upon the question: “What becomes of an eleven-year-old child whose father suddenly dies?” Suffering the pangs of increasing anger, alienation, and isolation, Maggie tries to restore balance and give meaning to her life as she searches for answers to this question. The transience, fragmentation, and truncation that dominate her narrative become a conceit for the emotional and social disruption characterizing her life since her father’s death. The opening dream sequence, for example, introduces a little girl,...
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