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A trio of young Chinese immigrants slowly transform into everything they once despised in the ""typical American"" as they set out after their dreams and create their own suburban paradise. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. Tour. NYT.
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IT'S AN American story: Before he was a thinker, or a doer, or an engineer, much less an imagineer like his self-made-millionaire friend Grover Ding, Ralph Chang was just a small boy in China, struggling to grow up his father's son.
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1991
ISBN: 0395546893
Page Count: 296
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1991
ISBN: 0395546893
Page Count: 296
Awards edit
- National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist, 1991: Fiction)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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