{"product_id":"what-we-all-long-for-love-enough-paperback-by-dionne-brand","title":"What We All Long For \/ Love Enough Paperback by Dionne Brand","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                        \n                            \n                                \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                \u003cul\u003e\n                                    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eVintage Canada\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2020-01-07)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e640\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9780735279872\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e504.63\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e8.0 x 5.1 x 1.4\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                \u003cbr\u003e\n                                \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTogether in a single volume, two beloved novels by one of our most celebrated and important writers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTuyen is an aspiring artist and the daughter of Vietnamese parents who've never recovered from losing one of their children while in the rush to flee Vietnam in the 1970s. She rejects her immigrant family's hard-won lifestyle, and instead lives in a rundown apartment with friends—each of whom is grappling with their own familial complexities and heartache.\u003cbr\u003e     By turns thrilling and heartbreaking, Tuyen's lost brother—who has since become a criminal in the Thai underworld—journeys to Toronto to find his long-lost family. As Quy's arrival nears, tensions build, friendships are tested, and an unexpected encounter will forever alter the lives of Tuyen and her friends. Gripping at times, heartrending at others, \u003ci\u003eWhat We All Long For \u003c\/i\u003eis an ode to a generation of longing and identity, and to the rhythms and pulses of a city and its burgeoning, questioning youth. Winner of the Toronto Book Award.\u003cbr\u003e____________\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eLove Enough\u003c\/i\u003e, the sharp beauty of Brand's writing draws us effortlessly into the intersecting stories of her characters caught in the middle of choices, apprehensions, fears. Each of the tales here—June's, Bedri's, Da'uud's, Lia's opens a different window on the city they all live in, mostly in parallel, but occasionally, delicately, touching and crossing one another. Each story radiates other stories. In these pages, the urban landscape cannot be untangled from the emotional one; they mingle, shift and cleave to one another. \u003cbr\u003e     The young man Bedri experiences the terrible isolation brought about by an act of violence, while his father, Da'uud, casualty of a geopolitical conflict, driving a taxi, is witness to curious gestures of love and anger; Lia faces the sometimes unbridgeable chasms of family; and fierce June, ambivalent and passionate with her string of lovers, now in middle age discovers: \"There is nothing universal or timeless about this love business. It is hard if you really want to do it right.\" At once lucid and dream-like, \u003ci\u003eLove Enough\u003c\/i\u003e is a profoundly modern work that speaks to the most fundamental questions of how we live now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                \u003cp\u003eDIONNE BRAND's literary credentials are legion. Her novel \u003ci\u003eTheory\u003c\/i\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book. Her poetry collection \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Clerk\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won the Trillium Book Prize. Her collection \u003ci\u003eOssuaries\u003c\/i\u003e won the Griffin Poetry Prize, and other collections have won the Governor General's Literary Award, the Trillium Book Prize, and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Among her other novels, \u003ci\u003eIn Another Place, Not Here\u003c\/i\u003e was selected as a \u003ci\u003eNYT Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book and a Best Book by the \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAt the Full and Change of the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e was selected as a Best Book by the \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWhat We All Long For\u003c\/i\u003e won the Toronto Book Award. In 2006, Brand was awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the world of books and writing; from 2009 to 2012 she served as Toronto's Poet Laureate, and in 2020 she won the internationally prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. In 2017, she was named to the Order of Canada. And in 2022, she became Editorial Director of Alchemy, a line of books within Knopf Canada. 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