{"product_id":"9781487011314","title":"Silver Repetition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA young Asian immigrant mends her fractured sense of self in this exquisite coming-of-age debut novel about family, grief, and identity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving left China for Canada with her parents as a child, Yuè Yuè yearns to discover who she is as she nears the end of her undergraduate degree and starts a new relationship. In urgent poetic fragments, she seeks common ground with her Canadian-born younger sister and grieves the beloved cousin she lost touch with back home. After Yuè Yuè receives a call from a girl making accusations, her date ghosts her. Meanwhile, her mother’s illness advances like snow. On a walk in the woods, Yuè Yuè sees a little girl digging in the mud, but when she peeks behind the curtain of black hair, her own face haunts her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn endless perfect loops of memory and dream, loss and return, \u003cem\u003eSilver Repetition\u003c\/em\u003e tenderly illuminates the fullness of identity despite fractures in language, culture, and relationships. In a moving reunion, Yuè Yuè’s cousin comes to visit and everyone is caught, laughing, in the rain. Despite the weight of grief, isolation, and difference, even the most delicate family bonds can knit together tightly enough for the future to overcome the past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lily Wang (CA)","offers":[{"title":"House of Anansi Press Inc |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-02-20","offer_id":44413909598463,"sku":"9781487011314","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ebe40bb3-1ffd-4f3f-9ab8-df85aff022ce.jpg?v=1700926536","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781487011314","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}