A brief book review of Sky Lee's novel: "Disappearing Moon Cafe." It discusses the main character Kae's rejection of Chinese Patriachal values.

In Sky Lee's Novel, Disappearing Moon Café, the character Kae breaks the circle of female self-destruction that has restricted and isolated the women of the Wong family through three generations. By discovering the secrets of her family's history, and more specifically the truth about her dead aunt Suzanne, Kae learns to erase the boundaries the have hindered her own aspirations and rejects the Chinese patriarchal values that confined and controlled the women of her past. …

…Instead of reinforcing the Patriarchal social structure that dominated three generations of Wong women, Kae is able to liberate herself from the burdens of her ancestors' past and instead learns to "live a great novel/not just write one." Word count: 566 Bibliography: Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Café, Vancouver, Douglas and McIntyre, 1991 Wai-Ling Ho-Ching, Who killed Suzie Wong: An inquiry into the Interactions between writer and subject in the Disappearing Moon Café: www.cs berkely.edu/