Love and Vertigo

by Hsu-Ming Teo

For the first time in my life, I saw my mother in relation to her family, and I didn't recognise her any more . . . These Singaporean roots of hers, this side of her--and possibly of me too--were unacceptable. I was determined not to belong, not to fit in, because I was Australian, and Mum ought to be Australian too. The tug of her roots, the blurring of her role from wife and mother to sister and aunt, angered me.

On the eve of her...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1865082783
• ISBN13: 9781865082783
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 7.6"