My parents fled Vietnam for Canada, only to find themselves stuck in a dead-end cycle of low-paying jobs – until, like so many of their friends, they found salvation in manicures
I was eight years old when my parents opened a nail salon in Halifax, a no-frills shop sandwiched between a Chinese restaurant and a tiny parking lot on Quinpool Road. I didn’t know it at the time, but that 2.5-kilometre artery is a major boundary separating the city’s South End and the North End – or rather, separating the rich and the poor. It was fitting that our salon straddled this middle; we lived between both worlds.
So when my parents announced we were moving to Halifax so they could open their own nail salon, I was excited for them. Your very own shop? Where you get to be the boss? And I can hang out there after school and get my nails painted for free? I was a preteen at the time, and nothing sounded cooler. And it worked. Over the years, as my parents’ salon amassed a steady stream of loyal clients who would return every two weeks to refill their acrylics and pamper themselves with pedicures, my parents were slowly able to afford a life of fewer worries. They saved up enough money to buy a house that had nary a mouse. They helped pay for my university tuition, along with my two younger siblings.
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