The Resource Useful phrases for immigrants : stories, May-lee Chai
Useful phrases for immigrants : stories, May-lee Chai
Resource Information
The item Useful phrases for immigrants : stories, May-lee Chai represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bates College.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Useful phrases for immigrants : stories, May-lee Chai represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Bates College.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- In the title story of this timely and innovative collection, a young woman wearing a Prada coat attempts to redeem a coupon for plastic storage bins while her in-laws are at home watching the Chinese news and taking her private phone calls. It is the lively and wise juxtaposition of cultures, generations, and emotions that characterize May-lee Chai's amazing stories. Within them, readers will find a complex blend of cultures spanning China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and finally, the world at large. With luminous prose and sharp-eyed observations, Chai reveals her characters' hopes and fears, and our own: a grieving historian seeking solace from an old lover in Beijing, a young girl discovering her immigrant mother's infidelity, workers constructing a shopping mall in central China who make a shocking discovery. Families struggle with long-held grudges, reinvent traditions, and make mysterious visits to shadowy strangers from their past-- all rendered with economy and beauty. With hearts that break and sometimes mend, with families who fight and sometimes forgive, the timely stories in Useful Phrases for Immigrants illuminate complicated lives with empathy and passion
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 146 pages
- Note
- Place of publication from publisher's Web site
- Contents
-
- Useful phrases for immigrants
- Fish boy
- Ghost festivals
- The body
- Canada
- The lucky day
- First Carvel in Beijing
- Shouting means I love you
- Isbn
- 9780932112767
- Label
- Useful phrases for immigrants : stories
- Title
- Useful phrases for immigrants
- Title remainder
- stories
- Statement of responsibility
- May-lee Chai
- Subject
-
- Chinese -- Migrations
- Chinese -- Migrations -- Fiction
- Chinese -- United States -- Fiction
- Chinese Americans
- Chinese Americans -- Fiction
- FICTION / Asian American
- FICTION / Cultural Heritage
- FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction
- Fiction
- Group identity -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Short stories
- Short stories
- Short stories
- Short stories, American
- Short stories, American
- United States
- Group identity
- Chinese
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In the title story of this timely and innovative collection, a young woman wearing a Prada coat attempts to redeem a coupon for plastic storage bins while her in-laws are at home watching the Chinese news and taking her private phone calls. It is the lively and wise juxtaposition of cultures, generations, and emotions that characterize May-lee Chai's amazing stories. Within them, readers will find a complex blend of cultures spanning China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and finally, the world at large. With luminous prose and sharp-eyed observations, Chai reveals her characters' hopes and fears, and our own: a grieving historian seeking solace from an old lover in Beijing, a young girl discovering her immigrant mother's infidelity, workers constructing a shopping mall in central China who make a shocking discovery. Families struggle with long-held grudges, reinvent traditions, and make mysterious visits to shadowy strangers from their past-- all rendered with economy and beauty. With hearts that break and sometimes mend, with families who fight and sometimes forgive, the timely stories in Useful Phrases for Immigrants illuminate complicated lives with empathy and passion
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Chai, May-lee,
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Short stories, American
- Chinese Americans
- Chinese
- Chinese
- Interpersonal relations
- Group identity
- Chinese
- Chinese Americans
- Chinese
- Group identity
- Short stories, American
- United States
- FICTION / Cultural Heritage
- FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
- FICTION / Asian American
- Label
- Useful phrases for immigrants : stories, May-lee Chai
- Note
- Place of publication from publisher's Web site
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Useful phrases for immigrants
- Fish boy
- Ghost festivals
- The body
- Canada
- The lucky day
- First Carvel in Beijing
- Shouting means I love you
- Control code
- 1028524098
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 146 pages
- Isbn
- 9780932112767
- Lccn
- 2018035244
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1028524098
- Label
- Useful phrases for immigrants : stories, May-lee Chai
- Note
- Place of publication from publisher's Web site
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Useful phrases for immigrants
- Fish boy
- Ghost festivals
- The body
- Canada
- The lucky day
- First Carvel in Beijing
- Shouting means I love you
- Control code
- 1028524098
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 146 pages
- Isbn
- 9780932112767
- Lccn
- 2018035244
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1028524098
Subject
- Chinese -- Migrations
- Chinese -- Migrations -- Fiction
- Chinese -- United States -- Fiction
- Chinese Americans
- Chinese Americans -- Fiction
- FICTION / Asian American
- FICTION / Cultural Heritage
- FICTION / Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction
- Fiction
- Group identity -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Short stories
- Short stories
- Short stories
- Short stories, American
- Short stories, American
- United States
- Group identity
- Chinese
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