American knees
By: Shawn Wong ; introduction by Jeffrey F.L. Partridge.
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Chinese Americans -- Fiction; Interracial dating -- Fiction; Dating (Social customs) -- Fiction; Chinese American families -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The loves of Raymond Ding, a Chinese-American who wonders if one can be a lapsed Chinese "like a lapsed Catholic." He becomes the first divorced person in his family, but eventually finds true love with a half-Japanese, half-Irish girl from the Midwest who cures him of his ethnic angst.