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  • Mootoo, Shani
    CEREUS BLOOMS AT NIGHT

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Grove Press, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel, originally published as a trade paperback original in Canada in 1996 and a finalist for th Giller Prize, the Canada First Novel Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Set on a fictional Caribbean island in the town of Paradise, it employs myth and magic to explore identity, violence and love. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-16337.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 33021
    Keywords: asian caribbean, asian-american, Caribbean literature and history, trinidad
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  • CEREUS BLOOMS AT NIGHT by Mootoo, Shani
    Mootoo, Shani
    CEREUS BLOOMS AT NIGHT

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Grove Press, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's highly praised first novel, originally published as a trade paperback original in Canada in 1996 and a finalist for th Giller Prize, the Canada First Novel Award and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Set on a fictional Caribbean island in the town of Paradise, it employs myth and magic to explore identity, violence and love. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-8021-16337.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped).

    Book ID: 59193
    Keywords: asian caribbean, asian-american, Caribbean literature and history, trinidad
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  • TRAIL OF CRUMBS: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home. by Sunee, Kim.
    Sunee, Kim.
    TRAIL OF CRUMBS: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2008). First edition - "When Kim Sunee was three years old, her mother took her to a marketplace, deposited her on a bench with a fistful of food, and promised she'd be right back. Three days later a policeman took the little girl, clutching what was now only a fistful of crumbs, to a police station and told her that she'd been abandoned by her mother.
    Fast-forward almost 20 years and Kim's life is unrecognizable.. . At the age of 21, she becomes involved with a famous French businessman and suddenly finds herself living in France, mistress over his houses in Provence and Paris, and stepmother to his eight year-old daughter. Kim takes…

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    New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2008). First edition - "When Kim Sunee was three years old, her mother took her to a marketplace, deposited her on a bench with a fistful of food, and promised she'd be right back. Three days later a policeman took the little girl, clutching what was now only a fistful of crumbs, to a police station and told her that she'd been abandoned by her mother.
    Fast-forward almost 20 years and Kim's life is unrecognizable.. . At the age of 21, she becomes involved with a famous French businessman and suddenly finds herself living in France, mistress over his houses in Provence and Paris, and stepmother to his eight year-old daughter. Kim takes readers on a lyrical journey from Korea to New Orleans to Paris and Provence, along the way serving forth her favorite recipes." 372 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self-flaps.

    Book ID: 73673
    Keywords: adoption, arc, asian-american, Biography, autobiography, memoirs, food, identity, korean, new orleans, orphan, uncorrected proof, women's studies
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