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What a knockout An incredibly rich and new voice for American literatureChina Boy grabs the readers heart and wont let goAmy Tan bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club

A fascinating evocative portrait of the Chinese community in California in the 1950s caught between two complex demanding culturesThe New York Times Book Review

Kai Ting is the only Americanborn son of a Shanghai family that fled China during Maos revolution Growing up in a San Francisco multicultural lowincome neighborhood Kai is caught between two worldsembracing neither the Chinese nor the American way of life After his mothers death Kai is suddenly plunged into American culture by his stepmother who tries to erase every vestige of China from the household

Warm funny and deeply moving China Boy is a brilliantly rendered novel of family relationships culture shock and the perils of growing up in an America of sharp differences and shared humanity