uOttawa prof's first novel examines race, belonging

The significance of the title of Ottawa author Jamie Chai Yun Liew's first novel, Dandelion, is explained in a passage involving the story's protagonist — 11-year-old Lily — and her family, on the front yard of their Sparwood, B.C., home one summer day. Her father, Ah Loy, a miner, uses a dandelion to illustrate his Hakka — a nomadic Chinese tribe — ancestry to Lily and her younger sister, Bea. Read More