The Sea Breeze Club

By Ming-yi Wu

A meticulously crafted novel set during the 1990s protest movement against the Taiwan Cement Corporation.

Deep inside a mountain cave--a silent Giant entombed in the earth--two souls meet. A young indigenous boy enters the cave from one end, chasing a white dog, while a young Taiwanese girl fleeing an abusive home enters from another. There, they meet and decide to switch lives, delving into the experiences of each other's worlds, until, eventually, they are returned home. Neither imagines they will ever meet the other again. However, years later, after many trying experiences, the young Taiwanese girl, now a single mother, becomes the owner of "The Sea Breeze Club," a hostess club in the now grown indigenous boy's village.

The village is home to both indigenous and Taiwanese, old residents and newcomers, all migrating through time under the watch of ancestral spirits and gods of the countryside. But on the other side of the village, machinery is brought in to carve up the mountainside for cement mining activities.

As the silent Giant of the mountain crumbles from decades of mining scars, what choices will the villagers face? And what destiny awaits them all?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1648212700
• ISBN13: 9781648212703
• Release Date: July 2027
• Publisher: Arcade Publishing
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.