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100 1 $aChai, May-Lee,$eauthor.
240 10 $aShort stories.$kSelections
245 10 $aUseful phrases for immigrants :$bstories /$cMay-lee Chai.
264 1 $a[Durham, NC] :$bBlair,$c[2018]
300 $a146 pages ;$c21 cm
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337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
500 $aPlace of publication from publisher's website.
520 $aIn 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.
505 0 $aUseful phrases for immigrants -- Fish boy -- Ghost festivals -- The body -- Canada -- The lucky day -- First Carvel in Beijing -- Shouting means I love you -- Acknowledgments.
650 0 $aShort stories, American.
650 0 $aChinese Americans$vFiction.
650 0 $aChinese$xMigrations$vFiction.
650 0 $aChinese$zUnited States$vFiction.
650 0 $aInterpersonal relations$vFiction.
650 0 $aGroup identity$vFiction.
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650 7 $aShort stories, American.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01117064
651 7 $aUnited States.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204155
650 4 $aFICTION / Cultural Heritage.
650 4 $aFICTION / Short Stories (single author).
650 4 $aFICTION / Asian American.
650 7 $aFICTION / Asian American.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Cultural Heritage.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Short Stories (single author)$2bisacsh
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655 7 $aFiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423787
655 7 $aShort stories.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01726740
776 08 $iOnline version:$aChai, May-Lee.$tUseful phrases for immigrants.$dDurham, NC : Blair, [2018]$z9781949467093$w(DLC) 2018035306
852 00 $bbar$hPS3553.H2423$iA6 2018