Intimate Distances Product Form:Paperback / softback McNeilly boasts finely honed poetic

McNeilly boasts finely honed poetic chops

Publication Date: 20140503

excites nearly from start to finish

with themes of love

but if there is a running theme it is that of identity

Intimate Distances Product Form:Paperback / softback McNeilly boasts finely honed poeticDescription A stunning first book from one of the Chinese Canadian community's most insightful and grippingly honest young voices, Intimate Distances is a deep exploration of the vicissitudes of interpersonal connection and family relationships. Lam writes poignantly and vividly about her background: her father's early death during her childhood, the end of marriage, the gradual loss of her mother to Alzheimer's and, most recently, childbirth.