โWhat a knockout. An incredibly rich and new voice for American literatureโฆChina Boy grabs the readerโs heart and wonโt let go.โโAmy Tan, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club
โA fascinating, evocative portrait of the Chinese community in California in the 1950s, caught between two complex, demanding cultures.โโThe New York Times Book Review
Kai Ting is the only American-born son of a Shanghai family that fled China during Maoโs revolution. Growing up in a San Francisco multicultural, low-income neighborhood, Kai is caught between two worldsโembracing neither the Chinese nor the American way of life. After his motherโs death, Kai is suddenly plunged into American culture by his stepmother, who tries to erase every vestige of China from the household.
Warm, funny and deeply moving, China Boy is a brilliantly rendered novel of family relationships, culture shock, and the perils of growing up in an America of sharp differences and shared humanity.