Oriental girls desire romance
By: Catherine Liu.
Publisher: Kaya; Distributed by D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Chinese American women -- Fiction.; New York (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: New York of the eighties: a time and a place where money is the most powerful intoxicant and glamour demands the embrace of excess. While fortunes are made in Soho galleries and on Wall Street, an underclass of transients - drag queens and dandies, strippers and artists - circulate through the streets, serving as the city's background color, cheap labor, and sleazy entertainment.

The unnamed narrator of Oriental Girls Desire Romance, a young Chinese American woman, is a sharp and eloquent wit who skirts the edges of privilege and privation in this, New York's own floating world. A refugee from the neuroses of an Ivy League education and feudal obligations to an immigrant family, she is a theory junkie strung out on sexual and intellectual highs.

Learning from the defiant grace of her snap queen friends, she navigates the demimonde with a wit that is at once perceptive, hilarious, and refreshingly unhinged.