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Description
Raucous twin sisters Moonie and Mei Ling Wong are known as the "double happiness" Chinese food delivery girls. Each day they load up a "crappy donkey-van" and deliver Americanized ("bad") Chinese food to homes throughout their southern California neighborhood. United in their desire to blossom into somebodies, the Wong girls fearlessly assert their intellect and sexuality, even as they come of age under the care of their dominating, cleaver-wielding grandmother from Hong Kong. They transform themselves from food delivery girls into accomplished women, but along the way they wrestle with the influence and continuity of their Chinese heritage.
Marilyn Chin's prose waxes and wanes between satire and metaphorical lyric, referencing classical Chinese tales and ghost stories that are at turns sensual, lurid, hilarious, shocking, and surreal.
Marilyn Chin's prose waxes and wanes between satire and metaphorical lyric, referencing classical Chinese tales and ghost stories that are at turns sensual, lurid, hilarious, shocking, and surreal.
Product Details
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Publish Date | September 01, 2009 |
Pages | 226 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780393331455 |
Dimensions | 8.3 X 5.6 X 0.5 inches | 0.4 pounds |
BISAC Categories: Popular Fiction
About the Author
Marilyn Chin has authored six poetry collections and a novel. She appears in The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, among others. A Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize recipient, she lives in San Diego, California.
Reviews
Based on classical Chinese mythology, ghost stories, and legends, Chin's unconventional coming-of-age novel is a frothy and tart exploration of the Asian immigrant experience.--Carol Haggas "Booklist"
Wildly profane and funny riffs on folklore, chronicling the adventures of two very modern Chinese-American sisters.... A fresh, chaotic and sexy updating of the cross-cultural experience.-- "Kirkus Reviews"
Wildly profane and funny riffs on folklore, chronicling the adventures of two very modern Chinese-American sisters.... A fresh, chaotic and sexy updating of the cross-cultural experience.-- "Kirkus Reviews"
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