The Resource Useful phrases for immigrants : stories, May-lee Chai
Useful phrases for immigrants : stories, May-lee Chai
Resource Information
The item Useful phrases for immigrants : stories, May-lee Chai represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
Resource Information
The item Useful phrases for immigrants : stories, May-lee Chai represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library, Britannia Branch.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- In the title story of this timely and innovative collection, a young woman wearing a Prada coat attempts to redeem a coupon for plastic storage bins while her in-laws are at home watching the Chinese news and taking her private phone calls. It is the lively and wise juxtaposition of cultures, generations, and emotions that characterize May-lee Chai's amazing stories. Within them, readers will find a complex blend of cultures spanning China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and finally, the world at large. With luminous prose and sharp-eyed observations, Chai reveals her characters' hopes and fears, and our own. Families struggle with long-held grudges, reinvent traditions, and make mysterious visits to shadowy strangers from their past--all rendered with economy and beauty. With hearts that break and sometimes mend, with families who fight and sometimes forgive, the timely stories in Useful Phrases for Immigrants illuminate complicated lives with empathy and passion
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 146 pages
- Contents
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- Useful phrases for immigrants
- Fish boy
- Ghost festivals
- The body
- Canada
- The lucky day
- First Carvel in Beijing
- Shouting means I love you
- Acknowledgments
- Isbn
- 9780932112767
- Label
- Useful phrases for immigrants : stories
- Title
- Useful phrases for immigrants
- Title remainder
- stories
- Statement of responsibility
- May-lee Chai
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In the title story of this timely and innovative collection, a young woman wearing a Prada coat attempts to redeem a coupon for plastic storage bins while her in-laws are at home watching the Chinese news and taking her private phone calls. It is the lively and wise juxtaposition of cultures, generations, and emotions that characterize May-lee Chai's amazing stories. Within them, readers will find a complex blend of cultures spanning China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and finally, the world at large. With luminous prose and sharp-eyed observations, Chai reveals her characters' hopes and fears, and our own. Families struggle with long-held grudges, reinvent traditions, and make mysterious visits to shadowy strangers from their past--all rendered with economy and beauty. With hearts that break and sometimes mend, with families who fight and sometimes forgive, the timely stories in Useful Phrases for Immigrants illuminate complicated lives with empathy and passion
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Chai, May-Lee
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3553.H2423
- LC item number
- A6 2018
- Literary form
- short stories
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Short stories, American
- Chinese Americans
- Chinese
- Chinese
- Interpersonal relations
- Group identity
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Useful phrases for immigrants : stories, May-lee Chai
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Useful phrases for immigrants -- Fish boy -- Ghost festivals -- The body -- Canada -- The lucky day -- First Carvel in Beijing -- Shouting means I love you -- Acknowledgments
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 146 pages
- Isbn
- 9780932112767
- Lccn
- 2018035244
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- on1028524098
- (OCoLC)1028524098
- Label
- Useful phrases for immigrants : stories, May-lee Chai
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Useful phrases for immigrants -- Fish boy -- Ghost festivals -- The body -- Canada -- The lucky day -- First Carvel in Beijing -- Shouting means I love you -- Acknowledgments
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Extent
- 146 pages
- Isbn
- 9780932112767
- Lccn
- 2018035244
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- on1028524098
- (OCoLC)1028524098
Library Locations
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Vancouver Public Library, Kitsilano BranchBorrow it2425 Macdonald St., Vancouver, BC, V6K 3Y9, CA49.26468 -123.168549
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nə́c̓aʔmat ct Strathcona BranchBorrow it720 East Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC, V6A 1R5, CA49.281139 -123.089108
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Vancouver Public Library, West Point Grey BranchBorrow it4480 West 10th Ave., Vancouver, BC, V6R 2H9, CA49.26369 -123.208342
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