num_pages: 416
description: Set in a near-future China the One Child Policy has resulted in 40 million men unable to find wives. This book is one such leftover mans quest for love and family under a State that seeks to glorify its past mistakes and impose order through authoritarian measures reinvigorated Communist ideals and social engineering.Wei-guo holds fast to the belief that as long as he continues to improve himself his small business and in turn his country his chance at love will come. He finally saves up the dowry required to enter matchmaking talks at the lowest rung as a third husbandthe maximum allowed by law. Only a single familyone harboring an illegal spouseshows interest yet with May-ling and her two husbands Wei-guo feels seen heard and connected to like never before. But everyone and everythingwalls streetlights garbage cansare listening and men excess or not are dispensable to the State. Wei-guo must reach a new understanding of patriotism and test the limits of his love and his resolve in order to save himself and this family he has come to hold dear.
language: English
title: An Excess Male
publisher: Harper Voyager