Diamond Grill

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Publication Year:
1996

ISBN-13: 9781897126509

&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p><b>Winner of the 1997 Howard O&#8217;Hagan&#10;Short Fiction Award!</b></p><p>&#8220;In the Diamond, at the end of&#10;a long green vinyl aisle between two booths of chrome, Naugahyde, and Formica,&#10;are two large swinging wooden doors, each with a round hatch of face-sized&#10;window. Those kitchen doors can be kicked with such a slap they&#8217;re heard all&#10;the way up to the soda fountain.&#8221;</p><p>This story of family and&#10;identity, migration and integration, culture and self-discovery is told through&#10;family history, memory, and the occasional&#10;recipe.</p><p><i>Diamond Grill</i> is a rich banquet&#10;where Salisbury steak shares a menu with chicken fried rice, and bird&#8217;s nest&#10;soup sets the stage for Christmas plum pudding; where racism simmers behind the&#10;shiny clean surface of the action in the cafe.</p><p>An exciting&#10;new edition of Fred Wah&#8217;s best-selling bio-fiction, on the 10th anniversary of&#10;its original publication, with an all new afterword by the author and the same&#10;pagination as the original publication.</p><p><i>Diamond Grill</i>&#10;is the third title in NeWest Press&#8217;s Landmark Editions series. Landmark&#10;Editions are previously published works by established and recognized western&#10;Canadian authors that will enjoy new life in this series. <i>Playing&#10;Dead</i> by Rudy Wiebe was the first book and <i>The Almost&#10;Meeting</i> by Henry Kreisel was the second in the Landmark Editions&#10;Series. NeWest is proud to offer this series as a strong addition to the&#10;heritage of Western Canadian literature.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p><b>Winner of the 1997 Howard O&#8217;Hagan&#10;Short Fiction Award!</b></p><p>&#8220;In the Diamond, at the end of&#10;a long green vinyl aisle between two booths of chrome, Naugahyde, and Formica,&#10;are two large swinging wooden doors, each with a round hatch of face-sized&#10;window. Those kitchen doors can be kicked with such a slap they&#8217;re heard all&#10;the way up to the soda fountain.&#8221;</p><p>This story of family and&#10;identity, migration and integration, culture and self-discovery is told through&#10;family history, memory, and the occasional&#10;recipe.</p><p><i>Diamond Grill</i> is a rich banquet&#10;where Salisbury steak shares a menu with chicken fried rice, and bird&#8217;s nest&#10;soup sets the stage for Christmas plum pudding; where racism simmers behind the&#10;shiny clean surface of the action in the cafe.</p><p>An exciting&#10;new edition of Fred Wah&#8217;s best-selling bio-fiction, on the 10th anniversary of&#10;its original publication, with an all new afterword by the author and the same&#10;pagination as the original publication.</p><p><i>Diamond Grill</i>&#10;is the third title in NeWest Press&#8217;s Landmark Editions series. Landmark&#10;Editions are previously published works by established and recognized western&#10;Canadian authors that will enjoy new life in this series. <i>Playing&#10;Dead</i> by Rudy Wiebe was the first book and <i>The Almost&#10;Meeting</i> by Henry Kreisel was the second in the Landmark Editions&#10;Series. NeWest is proud to offer this series as a strong addition to the&#10;heritage of Western Canadian literature.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;