description: "SUPERB...Gus Lee has forged a marvelous novel, with a hero capable of embodying the United States and all its multitudinous citizens".--Chicago TribuneKai Ting knows what it means to become an American and lose all that is Chinese. It happened to his father, a former officer in Chiang Kai-shek's army, who never came to terms with his new life in the United States. Now, as a West Point cadet in the 1960s, Kai has a golden chance both to retain his heritage and to become undeniably, gloriously American.But the Point has dangerous preconceptions about Asians, especially as the war in Vietnam escalates. Kai walks on a razor's edge...and falls into the dark pit of a cheating scandal. Suddenly, he must learn a new tribal behavior, a new etiquette. And his very survival depends on learning it fast; (."MOVING...HONOR AND DUTY reminds [one] of The Color Purple in the way that family revelations come slowly, subtly, often in fragments that Kai Ting must piece together in order to understand his past".--The New York Times Book Review"ENLIGHTENING AND SOBERING...Lee is a natural storyteller with wry humor, a wonderful ear for dialogue and the cadences of dialects--black, Southern, Bronx and pidgin English--and a talent for vivid and visceral descriptions".--San Francisco Chronicle
language: English
title: Honor & Duty
titlecomplete: Honor & Duty
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 100
publisher: Random House Audio