China Boy, Paperback

What a knockout. An incredibly rich and new voice or American literature China Boy grabs the reader s heart and won t let go A wonder of a story. Amy Tan, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club

Kai Ting is the only American-born son of an aristocratic Mandarin family that fled China in the wake of Mao s revolution. Growing up in San Francisco s ghetto, Kai is caught between two worlds embracing neither the Chinese nor the American way of life. After his mother s death, Kai is suddenly plunged into American culture by his new stepmother, a Philadelphia society woman 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."