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Yellow.
New York: Norton, W. W. &
Company, Inc., 2001.
A much-awarded first collection of short
stories, voted one of the best fiction titles of 2001 by
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Country of Origin.
New York:
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc., June,
2004.
Lisa Countryman vanishes in Tokyo but no one seems to be in a
particular hurry to find her. The American embassy official assigned
to her case, Tom Hurley, can't be bothered, entangled as he is in an
unsavory love affair with the wife of a CIA officer. The neurotic
Japanese cop in charge of the investigation, Kenzo Ota, is equally
preoccupied, ridiculed by his peers, demeaned by his superiors, his
life a lonely shambles. Worse, it appears that Lisa has disappeared
into the shadow world of Tokyo's sex trade, where a bewildering and
often comical variety of clubs cater to every imaginable male
fantasy." "The mystery of her disappearance is intertwined with the
mystery of her origins as an ainoko, or half-breed. For Lisa, who is
half African American and half Asian, alienation and belonging, love
and hate, are bound up with race. All the characters' loyalties are
divided - between their countries of origin and their adoptive
nationalities, between their society's traditions and their own sense
of justice - as they yearn to find where they truly belong." Country
of Origin is an exploration of the meaning of identity and belonging. |
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Wrack
and Ruin: A Novel.
New York:
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.,
April 21, 2008. Lyndon Song, a
renowned sculptor, has fled New York City to become a Brussels sprouts
farmer in the small California town of Rosarita Bay. Lyndon has a
brother, Woody, an indicted financier turned movie producer, and Woody
has a plan, involving a golf-course resort on Lyndon's land and an
aging kung-fu diva from Hong Kong with a mean kick and a meaner
drinking problem.
A dreadlocked buddy with an artificial leg, a small plot of
exceptionally lush marijuana, two field biologists studying western
snowy plovers, a disgraced museum curator, and Lyndon's great love,
the impulsive mayor of Rosarita Bay—these are only some of the
complications in Lyndon and Woody's lives over one madcap Labor Day
weekend.
Hilarious and philosophical, this many-hued novel about the landscape
of contemporary "multicultural" America is critically acclaimed Don
Lee's best book yet.
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