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American Knees Shawn Wong ; introduction by Jeffrey F.L. Partridge.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wong, Shawn, 1949-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese American families.
- Chinese Americans.
- Dating (Social customs).
- Interracial dating.
- Chinese American families--Fiction.
- Dating (Social customs)--Fiction.
- Interracial dating--Fiction.
- Chinese Americans--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Love stories.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- The loves of Raymond Ding, a Chinese-American who wonders if one can be a lapsed Chinese "like a lapsed Catholic." He becomes the first divorced person in his family, but eventually finds true love with a half-Japanese, half-Irish girl from the Midwest who cures him of his ethnic angst.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- acknowledgments
- introduction
- 1 loyalty, betrayal, & revenge
- 2 gold spike
- 3 eye contact
- 4 open curtains
- 5 sleepwalking
- 6 fear of flying
- 7 moment resistance
- 8 chinese girls
- 9 pathology
- 10 betty loves raymond
- 11 medical history
- 12 extravagance and equilibrium
- Praise for American Knees
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780295745282
- 0295745282
- OCLC:
- 1035556508
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