Eating Chinese Food Naked: A Novel
Mei Ng invents a new genre of heroine in her fiction debut. This simultaneously witty and poignant first novel explores the complex relationship between a mother and daughter, and the daughter's reluctant homecoming to a family she couldn't wait to leave.
Mei Ng invents a new genre of heroine in her fiction debut. This simultaneously witty and poignant first novel explores the complex relationship between a mother and daughter, and the daughter's reluctant homecoming to a family she couldn't wait to leave.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780671011451 (0671011456)
Publish date: November 1st 1998
Publisher: Scribner
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
This is very much a character driven book, very little actually happens, but we do get a feeling for life as a second generation Chinese girl in New York. Ruby is 21 when she graduates from university and goes home to live with her parents. Although she didn't have much money in her bank account, ...
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