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Steer toward rock / Fae Myenne Ng.
Van Pelt Library PS3564.G25 S74 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ng, Fae Myenne, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Butchers (Persons)--Fiction.
- Butchers (Persons).
- Noncitizens--Fiction.
- Noncitizens.
- Illegal immigration--Fiction.
- Illegal immigration.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Chinese Americans--Fiction.
- Chinese Americans.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.)--Fiction.
- Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.).
- Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
- Butcher shops.
- Undocumented immigrants.
- California--San Francisco--Chinatown.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Romance fiction.
- Love stories.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hyperion, [2008]
- Summary:
- A solitary bachelor butcher in San Francisco's McCarthy-era Chinatown, Jack Szeto serves the left-behind housewives of Central Valley farm laborers, falls in love with the daughter of a shunned mortician, and triggers a heartbreaking retaliatory act.
- Notes:
- Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature - Adult Fiction, Honor, 2008-2009
- Chinese American Librarians Association Annual Best Book Award - Adult fiction, Best Book, 2009
- American Book Awards, Winner, 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780786860975
- 0786860979
- OCLC:
- 212624657
- Online:
- Publisher description
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