- Fiction, Chinese Americans, Chinese American families, Dating (Social customs)
"You won't even be Chinese after your wife's attorney gets through with you," Raymond Ding's attorney tells him after Darleen has filed for divorce. Raymond wonders if you can be a lapsed Chinese the way you can be a lapsed Catholic.
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Contemporary, classical in form, spare and intimate.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Shawn Wong
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Scribner Paperback Fiction, Simon & Schuster, University of Washington Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780684822754
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Subjects
- Fiction
- Chinese Americans
- Chinese American families
- Dating (Social customs)
- Interracial dating
- Chinese Americans -- Fiction.
- Interracial dating -- Fiction.
- Dating (Social customs) -- Fiction.
- Chinese American families -- Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships, fiction
- Fiction, romance, contemporary
- Asian americans, fiction
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