American Knees

Type

Book

Authors

Wong, Shawn

ISBN 10

0684803046

ISBN 13

9780684803043

Tags

United States, Chinese American families, Chinese Americans, Dating (Social customs), Interracial dating

Abstract

"American Knees is a novel written by Shawn Wong, first published in 1995 by Simon & Schuster, and currently published by the University of Washington Press (2005). Conceived as a cultural response to Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club,[citation needed] Wong's book depicts the love life of an Asian American man with three complex women. The book chronicles with humor the romantic chapters in the life of Raymond Ding, a Chinese American university administrator who first marries and divorces the perfect Chinese American wife, dates and breaks up with a hapa (bi-racial) younger woman, and gets involved with a Vietnamese American co-worker haunted by memories of the war.

Description

Chinese American Raymond Ding, fresh from a divorce, falls in love with half-Japanese Aurora Crane. He soon discovers he is "banging his shins on the questions of race, culture, and identity he thought he had left behind."--Cover.

Biblio Notes

Genre/Form: Fiction
Roman américain
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Shawn Wong
ISBN: 068482275X 9780684822754 0684803046 9780684803043
OCLC Number: 1232162980
Description: 1 vol. (240 p.) : couv. ill. en coul. ; 21 cm.
Responsibility: Shawn Wong.

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