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Amazon.com ReviewAnother entry in the ongoing rush of Asian-American novels about experiences in a world-not-Asian is A Long Stay in a Distant Land. Author Chieh Chieng was born in Hong Kong and moved to Orange County, California, when he was seven. He has cultivated an absolutely deadpan wit and sense of irony, and in this novel, at age 29, has made an auspicious debut. The Lums, the Chinese-American family Chieng writes about, have a peculiar history. Too many of them suffer an untimely demise: Mom, 51, collision with a car driven by Hersey Collins; cousin Connie, 12, ate a bad cheeseburger; Aunt Julie, 29, stomach cancer; cousin Will, 16, heatstroke; Uncle Larry, 40, fell off a cliff; Grandpa Melvin, 62, struck by an ice cream truck. Louis, the narrator, knows why all this has happened. His Grandpa could have avoided going to WW II, but he saw a Popeye cartoon and was inspired by Popeye's bravery to enlist. "Grandpa had violated the fundamental law that one should not kill another. He'd had a choice. He could have chosen not to join the war and not to shoot people. For every man Grandpa had killed, Death had designated a Lum to be picked off." Who knew where it would end And now, with the death of Louis's mother, his father, Sonny, is calling him daily to say that he wants to "run down Hersey Collins with his car, or crush his skull with a brick." Louis moves in with his father to keep an eye on him and discovers, in some of the funniest episodes in the book, that his father is a gansta rap-obsessed cuckoo. One day Grandma Esther calls to tell him that Bo, Louis's uncle and her favorite son, has disappeared in the labyrinths of Hong Kong. Uncle Bo has absented himself for many years, but always kept in touch by filling out a check-list sent by his mother. Now, even that has stopped. Louis goes to Hong Kong to find Bo and, during his search, finds pieces of family history as seen through the eyes of three generations. Every family has stories, true and false, that become part of the dogma passed on to the next generation. In the last chapter, "The Dance of Good Fortune," Chieng leads us to believe that the Lum curse of early Death might be over and that story will become myth. --Valerie Ryan From Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bront - Gutenberg Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte The Project Gutenberg eBook Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Illustrated by F. H. Townsend This eBook is for the use of anyone ... Excalibur TYPE-MOON Wiki Fandom powered by Wikia Saber launching Excalibur at Bellerophon from atop a building. Excalibur is a "sword that amplifies" converting its users magical energy into offensive power and ... LS2 PAC - Catalog Log in with either your Library Card Number or EZ Login. Library ID (No Spaces!) or EZ Username Last Name or EZ Password. Remember Me Dune (novel) - Wikipedia Dune is a 1965 epic science fiction novel by American author Frank Herbert originally published as two separate serials in Analog magazine. It tied with Roger ... Retired Site PBS Programs PBS If you are a teacher searching for educational material please visit PBS LearningMedia for a wide range of free digital resources spanning preschool through 12th grade. Blockade - Wikipedia Whether or not a blockade was seen as lawful depended on the laws of the nations whose trade was influenced by the blockade. The Brazilian blockade of Ro de la ... Books Comics and Computer Games - Richard (K) Morgan A long long time ago I visited this site and saw something that really surprised me. Morgan himself posted something akin to For those of you asking about a 4th ... The Distant Hours by Kate Morton Paperback Barnes & Noble The 1 internationally bestselling author of The Forgotten Garden mesmerizes readers with this haunting tale of long-buried secrets and the twists of fate that can ... Novel: Noli Me Tangere by Jos Rizal. First Published in ... Noli Me Tangere is a novel by Filipino polymath Jos Rizal and first published in 1887 in Berlin Germany. Early English translations used titles like An Eagle ... NECO Inc . - 3D Engineering Technology Prototyping 3D CAD Services Streamline Design Process. Neco Inc. of Denver Colorado provides 3D Computer Aided Design and support services primarily allied to the ...
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