Title: The Expatriates
Description: Three very different American women livie in the same small expat community in Hong Kong. Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, is adrift, undone by a terrible incident in her recent past. Hilary, a wealthy housewife, is haunted by her struggle to have a child, something she believes could save her foundering marriage. Meanwhile, Margaret, once a happily married mother of three, questions her maternal identity in the wake of a shattering loss. Their lives collide in ways that have irreversible consequences for them all.
Subjects: Literary, Married women, Americans, Contemporary Women, Aliens, Fiction, Self-realization in women, FICTION / Contemporary Women, FICTION / Literary, New York Times reviewed, Asian Americans, Friendship, Women, Fiction, women, Large type books, Hong kong (china), fiction, Fiction, family life, Married people, fiction, Noncitizens
Places: China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong (China)