What We All Long for

A gripping novel of love, loss, identity, and change chronicles the interlocking tales of a multicultural group of second-generation twenty-somethings living in urban Toronto and the secrets they are hiding from their families, including Tuyen, an avant-garde artist and lesbian daughter of Vientamese parents; Carla, a biracial bicycle courier; and Oku, the poet son of Jamaican parents. 15,000 first printing.