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Perfect for fans of They Both Die at the End and You've Reached Sam, this gripping, atmospheric YA novel follows a teen with a mysterious condition that transports her to the past when she smells certain scents linked to specific memories. Seventeen-year-old Aimee Roh has Sensory Time Warp Syndrome, a rare condition that causes her to time travel to a moment in her life when she smells something linked to that memory. Her dad is convinced she'll simply grow out of it if she tries hard enough, but Aimee's fear of vanishing at random has kept her from living a normal life. When Aimee disappears for nine hours into a memory of her estranged mom--a moment Aimee has never remembered before--she becomes distraught. Not only was this her longest disappearance yet, but the memory doesn't match up with the story of how her mom left--at least, not the version she's always heard from her dad. Desperate for answers, Aimee travels to Korea, where she unravels the mystery of her memories, the truth about her mother, and the reason she keeps returning to certain moments in her life. Along the way, she realizes she'll need to reconcile her past in order to save her present. From acclaimed author Sarah Suk comes an aching, powerful exploration of memory, grief, and the painful silences we must overcome to discover our truest selves.
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BETWEEN SOUTH CHINA AND BRITISH COLUMBIA: Life Trajectories of Chinese Women
Despite problems with what Wayson Choy calls \"creative fiction\"4 - the mixing of fact with fiction, the distortion caused by some authors' search for personal identity,5 and the fallibility of human memory6 - novels, memoirs, and even folksongs, when handled carefully, are a valuable resource for providing insights into the lived experiences of these women, their feelings and perceptions, and the ways in which they have been interpreted.7 For more recent times, however, oral histories, participant observations, social surveys, and interviews by social scientists offer a reliable source of information about women from South China who have British Columbia connections.8 Of all immigrant groups in Canada, those from China historically suffered the greatest immigration and emigration hurdles. PIONEER CHINESE WOMEN IN BRITISH COLUMBIA (1860 TO 1947) Wives Chinese women were present in British Columbia as early as 1858.11 However, patriarchal tradition in South China, British Columbia's frontier conditions, white racism, and restrictive immigration legislations combined to keep Chinese wives a small minority in Canada until the late 1940s.12 According to official statistics, between 1871 and 1902 only 0.7 percent of the total China-born population in Canada was made up of wives.13 In accordance with Chinese polygamous tradition, first wives usually stayed home in the village to manage family affairs while secondary wives (concubines) accompanied their husbands to Canada to satisfy their sexual needs and to produce additional male heirs.14 Denise Chong's grandmother May Ying, for example, was a concubine who worked in Canada, and her wages went to support the primary wife at home.
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