River east, river west : a novel / Aube Rey Lescure.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rey Lescure, Aube, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Americans--China--Fiction.

Americans.

Multiracial teenagers--Fiction.

Multiracial teenagers.

China--Social life and customs--Fiction.

China.

China--Politics and government--Fiction.

Shanghai (China)--Fiction.

Shanghai (China).

Genre:

Bildungsromans.

Domestic fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

342 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]

Summary:

Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, a new novel is a coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world.

Shanghai, 2007: Fourteen-year-old Alva has always longed for more. Raised by her American expat mother, she's never known her Chinese father, and is certain a better life awaits them in America. But when her mother announces her engagement to their wealthy Chinese landlord, Lu Fang, Alva's hopes are dashed, and so she plots for the next best the American School in Shanghai. Upon admission, though, Alva is surprised to discover an institution run by an exclusive community of expats and the ever-wilder thrills of a city where foreigners can ostensibly act as they please. 1985: In the seaside city of Qingdao, Lu Fang is a young, married man and a lowly clerk in a shipping yard. Though he once dreamed of a bright future, he is one of many casualties in his country's harsh political reforms. So when China opens its doors to the first wave of foreigners in decades, Lu Fang's world is split wide open after he meets an American woman who makes him confront difficult questions about his current status in life, and how much will ever be enough.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Keyes Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780063257856

0063257858

OCLC:

1416353249