- Chinese Americans, Fiction, American fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author)
American Book Award winner. Short stories set among the Chinese-American community of Oakland, California. "[Chin] writes an oceanic prose teeming with wild images and long surreal passages." —Richard Burgin, New York Times Book Review
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Contemplative, prestige, grave and character-led.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Frank Chin
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 165
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780918273444
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