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Eating Chinese Food Naked by Ng Mei

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Summary

After college, Ruby Lee moves back to her parents' and works as a typist. Her father watches TV all day in their laundry, but her mother hasn't settled in so well. At nights and weekends, Ruby exchanges the ancient disputes and bitter loving of life at home for a brash sensual world of her own.

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Eating Chinese Food Naked by Ng Mei

Ruby Lee has left home (a Chinese laundry in Brooklyn) and she hopes to leave behind the ancient disputes and bitter loving of her parents for a brash and sensual world of her own. But can she leave her Chinese inheritance behind? A superbly satisfying and witty debut from a smart new writer.

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Mei Ng was born in New York, the child of Chinese immigrants, and now liives in Brooklyn. She wrote EATING CHINESE FOOD NAKED, her first novel, while she was temping.
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ISBN 13 9780140256970
ISBN 10 0140256970
Title Eating Chinese Food Naked
Author Mei Ng
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 1999-02-04
Number of pages 256
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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