Fire Cider Rain by Rhiannan Ng Cheng Hin Paperback Book 9781552454510

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARDPoetry that navigates the science of cold waterways to consider the warmth of the poets ChineseMauritian family tiesamp10amp10Fire Cider Rainamp160is about the limits to which shared cultural and geographic histories can hold a family together It follows the lives of three ChineseMauritian 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 the book follows the events leading up to and following the death of her grandmother an exlighthouse keeper and matriarch whose fractured relationship with her own daughter haunts the narratoramp8217s 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 toamp10amp10At its core Fire Cider Rainamp160is a book about parentchild relationships as vessels for cultural identity and the ways in which expressions of love and...