Shortlisted For The 2023 Archibald Lampman Awardpoetry That Navigates The Science Of Cold Waterways To Consider The Warmth Of The Poet's Chinese-mauritian Family Ties&10;&10;fire Cider Rain&160;is About The Limits To Which Shared Cultural And Geographic Histories Can Hold A Family Together. It Follows The Lives Of Three Chinese-mauritian Women On The Course Of Dispersing, Settling, And Rooting Over Northern Landscapes, And The Brittle Family Bonds That Tie Them To One Another And To Their Home Country. Told From The Perspective Of The Youngest Of The Three Women, The Book Follows The Events Leading Up To And Following The Death Of Her Grandmother, An Ex-lighthouse Keeper And Matriarch Whose Fractured Relationship With Her Own Daughter Haunts The Narrator&8217;s Life In Soft, Painful Aftershocks.