Results for "Chai, May-Lee"

A short story collection exploring cultural complexities in China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and the world at large.In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai's latest collection Tomorrow in Shanghai explores mult... Read More about Tomorrow in Shanghai: Stories

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, genera... Read More about Useful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories (Bakwin Award)

Nea, a Chinese-Cambodian teenager, flees to Texas as a refugee from the Khmer Rouge regime when a miracle occurs. Although her family has been struggling to support itself, they discover that a wealthy aunt and uncle have managed to make it to America as well. Nea and her family rush to join their r... Read More about Dragon Chica

"I rediscovered a bit of myself in Jun-li, and in May-lee Chai's beautifully constructed and perfectly contained world. It's the deftly and subtly rendered intricacies that mark this story, link it to the experience of Asians in America, and linger in the imagination." Julie Shigekuni, author of A B... Read More about Training Days (Gemma Open Door)

A family memoir set against the shifting tides of twentieth-century China, The Girl from Purple Mountain begins with a mystery: the Chai family matriarch, Ruth Mei-en Tsao Chai, dies unexpectedly and her grieving husband discovers that she had secretly arranged to be buried alone—rather than in the ... Read More about The Girl from Purple Mountain: Love, Honor, War, and One Family's Journey from China to America

"Perhaps a future of environmental writing begins in trying to meet all people where they are, wherever they are," writes Lauret E. Savoy. "It's acknowledging and honoring difference as enriching." In Trespass , twenty women essayists challenge the traditional boundaries of place-based writing to ma... Read More about Trespass: Ecotone Essayists Beyond the Boundaries Ofplace, Identity, and Feminism