Diamond Grill

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By (author): Fred Wah

This story of family and identity&#44 migration and integration&#44 culture and self&#45discovery is told through family history&#44 memory&#44 and the occasional recipe&#46 Diamond Grill is a rich banquet where Salisbury Steak shares a menu with chicken fried rice&#44 bird&#146s nest soup sets the stage for Christmas plum pudding&#59 where racism simmers behind the shiny clean surface of the action in the cafe&#46 An exciting new edition of Fred Wah&#146s best&#45selling bio&#45fiction&#44 on the 10th anniversary of its original publication&#44 with added text and an all new afterword by the author&#46

AUTHOR

Fred Wah

Noted Canadian poet&#44 Fred Wah is a Governor General<&#146>s Award recipient &#40poetry&#41 and author of many published works including the award<&#45>winning biofictionDiamond Grill&#46 Involved in publishing and teaching internationally in poetry and poetics since the early 1960s&#44 he is currently professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Calgary&#46