Homesick is a memoir about growing up with a mentally ill immigrant mother in suburban Toronto. It is one family’s chronicle, a story of chaos, confusion and challenges in adversarial circumstances. The work is divided into three sections. Home is where the Heartache Lives deals with a childhood spent witnessing an acrimonious arranged marriage. You Can’t Go Home Again covers the twenty years the narrator spent living in British Columbia while attempting to maintain a distance from the immediate family. Homesick details the narrator’s return to Toronto. Themes of home, language and cultural identity are explored alongside the experience of what it means to witness a devastating disease like schizophrenia and what it feels like to endure a chronically ill family membe
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