Troublemaker and Other Saints

Name: Troublemaker and Other Saints
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ISBN: 9780425183434

ISBN-10: 0425183432

ISBN-13: 9780425183434

Edition: N/A

Authors: Christina Chiu

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Meet the Wongs, Shengs, and Tsuis. Each of these families has its own troubles and secrets. But the three clans-whose members include a matriarch who talks to dead relatives, her nymphomaniac granddaughter, and a street punk-share a past and face a common future. Hailed by critics, Troublemaker"refracts classic old-vs.-new-world tensions through the prism of second-generation Chinese-American Gen-Xers." (Time) "A truly auspicious fiction debut." (Vanity Fair) "Honest, complex...deeply satisfying." (Entertainment Weekly) "Literary debuts don't come much nervier. [It] explores the generational, cultural and sexual divides with humor and compassion." (The Washington Post Book World) …

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/2/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English



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