A lyrical novel set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution that follows a father's quest to reunite his family before his precocious daughter's momentous birthday, which Garth Greenwell calls "one of the most beautiful...
Chinese American families
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Author:Feng, Linda RuiSummary: - Author:Chow, KatSummary:
After her mother dies unexpectedly, Kat Chow, her sisters, and their father are plunged into a debilitating, lonely grief. Kat weaves together a story of the fallout of grief that follows her extended family as they emigrate from China...
- Author:Fu, MelissaSummary:
It is 1938 in China and, as a young wife, Meilin's future is bright. But with the Japanese army approaching, Meilin and her four year old son, Renshu, are forced to flee their home. Relying on little but their wits and a...
- Author:Luo, SusieSummary:
Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives. There's Tony, a Chinese-born engineer turned Manhattan doorman, who immigrated to the United States...
- Author:Chang, Lan SamanthaSummary:
Not since Maxine Hong Kingston and Amy Tan has a fiction writer explored with such powerful intensity the experience of being Asian American. The characters who inhabit this extraordinary fictional debut are caught between the burden of...
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Author:Mendelson, AnneSummary:Chinese food first became popular in America under the shadow of violence against Chinese aliens, a despised racial minority ineligible for United States citizenship. The founding of late-nineteenth-century "chop suey" restaurants that...
