What we all long for
Canadian fiction, Family stories, General fiction, Multi-cultural fiction
Human-narrated audio
Summary
The overlapping lives of four twenty-somethings: Tuyen is the lesbian daughter of Vietnamese parents who've never recovered from losing one of their children; Carla, who's still reeling from her mother's suicide; Oku, a jazz-loving poet in conflict with his father… and in love with Jackie, who is a black woman who dates only white men. The fifth character is Quy, the child Tuyen's parents lost. A member of the Thai underworld, he will soon be reunited with his family, but is it to love them or hurt them? 2005.