"Set in a small Ontario town in the 1960s, Midnight at the Dragon Cafe is the story of a young girl whose life is changed over the course of one summer when she learns the burden of secrets and, ultimately, the grace of forgiveness. Su-Jen and her parents settle uneasily into their new life in a town where they are the only Chinese family, isolated by language and long hours at the diner they own. Things change when Lee-Kung, Su-Jen's half-brother, arrives. He works in the kitchen and smolders under the responsibilities he must carry as the dutiful son, forming an alliance with his mother, a beautiful, bitter stepmother. Su-Jen's father, one of the lo wa kew, the "old timers" generation, works continually for a better future and strives to save face at all costs."--BOOK JACKET.