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"Three weeks before his fifty-seventh birthday, novelist Wayson Choy received a mysterious phone message during his publicity tour for The Jade Peony. When he called the number, an older woman's voice answered, telling him that she had just seen his mother on the streetcar.
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Grave, earnest, contemplative and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Wayson Choy
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 342
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, CanBook Distributor, Picador
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780312284152
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“"I SAW YOUR MOTHER LAST WEEK."”
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