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Fae Myenne Ng
From the bestselling and award-winning author of novels Bone and Steer Toward Rock, Fae Myenne Ng's Orphan Bachelors is an extraordinary memoir of her beloved San Francisco's Chinatown and of…
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A profoundly moving journey into San Francisco’s Chinatown that is brutal and poignant, dreamy and gritty, specific to its place and resonant in its implication about what it means to…
This eagerly awaited follow-up to Ng’s first novel, Bone, again addresses the issues of Chinese-American identity, in this moving, unflinching yet sometimes witty story.
Louis Chu
At the close of the Second World War, racist immigration laws trapped enclaves of old men in Chinatowns across the United States, preventing their wives or families from joining them…