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Transparency easy rawlinsWith a deceptively simple yet graceful style, and in the tradition of Lara Vapnyar, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Gish Jen, Frances Hwang captures the thousand minor battles waged in the homes of immigrants struggles to preserve timehonored traditions or break free of them, to maintain authority or challenge it, and to take advantage of modern excesses without diluting one's ethnic identity. In Garden City, a weary Chinese couple, struggling to evict their

Packed with facts and action

"one of the greats of crime fiction" (New York Daily News)

and interview all weigh heavily in the acceptance process

abruptly announcing that she's cancelled her engagement

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Maviah is called on to protect the very people who rejected her

portrays Beth as the endearing

as Charlie Parker once put it

Who can be your friend

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This has far-reaching implications--both positive and negative--throughout all areas of our lives

a lifelong mujahedeen beset by a simmering crisis of conscience as he struggles against enemies from without and within