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    A Fish Could Love a Bird

    By Sheila Clarke

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    A FISH COULD LOVE A BIRD recounts the interracial marriage between Lauren, a Caucasian Canadian artist, and Chen, a Chinese Malaysian physician, who met at the University of British Columbia. The newly-weds will live with his parentsWong, a rubber plantation owner, and Tan, who runs a beauty salon.

    Lauren, coming directly from a privileged life in Vancouver with her BFA degree in her suitcase, faces crucial challenges entering the home and culture of a Chinese family. Feeling like an alien, she is battered by superstitions, treated with mysterious potions from the apothecary and pressured from the beginning to have a boy baby. As eldest son, Chen is torn between the bounden duty to his parents and the expectations of his feisty, energetic wife.

    The novel gives a close look at many facets of Malaysian lifefrom hot ginger compresses to devils peeking in windows. In the face of overwhelming socio-cultural differences, can the marriage of Lauren and Chen survive?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateOct 29, 2010
    ISBN9781450261579
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    Sheila Clarke

    Sheila Clarke lived in Malaysia for six years. While there she worked at the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) as an ESL volunteer. It was there that her first novel, A Fish Could Love A Bird, was conceived. Sheila is the author of Watering Silk Flowers—caring for a mother with Alzheimer’s. She lives with her husband in Vancouver and Sorrento, British Columbia.

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