China Boy by Gus Lee

China Boy by Gus Lee

"What a knockout. An incredibly rich and new voice for American literature...China Boy grabs the reader's heart and won't let go."--Amy Tan, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club

"A fascinating, evocative portrait of the Chinese community in California in the 1950s, caught between two complex, demanding cultures."--The New York Times Book Review

Kai Ting is the only American-born son of a Shanghai family that fled China during Mao's revolution. Growing up in a San Francisco multicultural, low-income neighborhood, Kai is caught between two worlds--embracing neither the Chinese nor the American way of life. After his mother's death, Kai is suddenly plunged into American culture by his stepmother, who tries to erase every vestige of China from the household.

Warm, funny and deeply moving, China Boy is a brilliantly rendered novel of family relationships, culture shock, and the perils of growing up in an America of sharp differences and shared humanity.

Gus Lee was a paratrooper, an Army judge advocate, and a supervising deputy district attorney. He served as legal counsel to congressional probes into military wrongdoing, and his trial advocacy earned him the Silk Purse Award and other honors. He was the State Bar of California's statewide prosecutor training, the deputy director of the California District Attorneys Association, and a senior executive. He is now a full-time writer, married with two children, and still works as a trainer for the FBI, the Department of Justice, and a variety of companies.

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ISBN 13	9780452271586
ISBN 10	0452271584
Title	China Boy
Author	Gus Lee
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	1994-01-01
Number of pages	336
Prizes	Winner of Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award.
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.