“Once upon a time there was a Chinese man (James) who married a Caucasian woman (Marilyn) moved to a small Ohio college town to live happily ever after. This is, in the end, a novel about the burden of being the first of your kind-a burden you do not always survive.” - Alexander Chee, The New York Times Book Review She does both by turning the nest of familial resentments into at least four smaller, prickly mysteries full of secrets the family members won’t share… What emerges is a deep, heartfelt portrait of a family struggling with its place in history, and a young woman hoping to be the fulfillment of that struggle. “ If we know this story, we haven’t seen it yet in American fiction, not until now… Ng has set two tasks in this novel’s doubled heart-to be exciting, and to tell a story bigger than whatever is behind the crime. PUBLISHED WORLDWIDE IN MORE THAN 20 LANGUAGES.John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger Award.ASIAN/PACIFIC AMERICAN AWARD FOR LITERATURE IN ADULT FICTION.AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION'S ALEX AWARD 2015.
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