Fire cider rain / Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ng Cheng Hin, Rhiannon, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parent and child--Poetry.

Parent and child.

Group identity--Poetry.

Group identity.

Canadian poetry--Women authors.

Canadian poetry.

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

102 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Coach House Books, [2022]

Summary:

"Fire Cider Rain is about the limits to which shared cultural and geographic histories can hold a family together. It follows the lives of three Chinese-Mauritian women on the course of dispersing, settling, and rooting over northern landscapes, and the brittle family bonds that tie them to one another and to their home country. Told from the perspective of the youngest of the three women, Fire Cider Rain follows the events leading up to and following the death of her grandmother, an ex-lighthouse keeper and matriarch whose fractured relationship with her own daughter haunts the narrator's life in soft, painful aftershocks. As she navigates the cold cities and waterways of Southern Ontario, our narrator struggles with conflicting desires to run toward and flee from her island identity, which grows ever distant, ever more difficult to find her way back to. At its core, Fire Cider Rain is a book about parent-child relationships as vessels for cultural identity, and the ways in which expressions of love and non-love within those relationships can rupture sense of place, self, and at times, a collective diaspora. Throughout the book, Fire Cider Rain explores the geopolitics of island nations, the dilution of family histories over time, and the experience of water as a medium for the cyclical movement of island bodies, stories, and cultures. The Mauritian landscape and waterways of southern Ontario recur through the book as convergence points for its many themes."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Poems.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Ng Cheng Hin, Rhiannon. Fire cider rain.

ISBN:

9781552454510

1552454517

OCLC:

1302579956

Publisher Number:

99993602346