May-Lee Chai

Tomorrow in Shanghai (eBook, ePUB)

Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A short story collection exploring cultural complexities in China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and the world at large.

In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai's latest collection Tomorrow in Shanghai explores multicultural complexities through lenses of class, wealth, age, gender, and sexualityalways tracking the nuanced, knotty, and intricate exchanges of interpersonal and institutional power.

These stories transport the reader, variously: to rural China, where a city doctor harvests organs to fund a wedding and a future for his family; on a vacation to France, where a white mother and her biracial daughter cannot escape their fraught relationship; inside the unexpected romance of two Chinese-American women living abroad in China; and finally, to a future Chinese colony on Mars, where an aging working-class woman lands a job as a nanny. Chai's stories are essential reading for an increasingly globalized world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Blair
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781949467871
• Artikelnr.: 62356267

Autorenporträt

May-lee Chai is the author of the American Book Award-winning story collection Useful Phrases for Immigrants and ten other books. Her prize-winning short prose has been published widely, including in the New England Review, Missouri Review, Seventeen, The Rumpus, ZYZZYVA, the Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, and the San Francisco Chronicle. The recipient of an NEA fellowship in prose, Chai is an associate professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Tomorrow in Shanghai
Life on Mars
Monkey King of Sichuan
Hong's Mother
White Rabbits
Jia
Slow Train to Beijing
The Nanny