Exploring the ambiguities of face and class

Finding Mr. Wong
Susan Crean | Talon Books
$19.95, 248 pp.Award-winning Canadian author Susan Crean grew up in an upwardly mobile Irish family in Toronto. One of the markers of her grandfather’s social climb was the fact that he could employ a Chinese servant, Mr. Wong, who worked for the Creans from 1928 until 1965.
“I grew up in Mr. Wong’s kitchen,” Susan Crean says early on in this elegantly written and fiercely felt account of a love that crossed the boundaries of rac