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Eat Everything Before You Die - A Chinaman in the Counterculture (Paperback)
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Eat Everything Before You Die - A Chinaman in the Counterculture (Paperback)
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In this vibrant and original novel, Christopher Columbus Wong, an
orphan son of a Chinatown bachelor community, is trying to invent a
family for himself while all around him American popular culture is
reinventing itself with sex, drugs, and rock and roll. As the
country's mores shift and change, Christopher recalls his own
disputed origins, and finds himself on a wild journey with his gay
older brother, Peter, a pan-Pacific chef and public television's
Peter Pan; the defrocked, deranged, and eroding ex-director of a
Chinatown settlement house, Reverend Ted Candlewick, dismissed for
paedophilia; the sharp-eyed, conspiring matriarch Auntie Mary, the
bridge between the conflicting values that make up this cultural
stew; and the dying Uncle Lincoln, a remnant of the transient
bachelor society, and, quite possibly, Christopher's and Peter's
father. his exwives: Winnie, a Hong Kong immigrant looking for a
green card, who leaves him only to become Uncle Lincoln's wife; and
Melba, an American orphan of the counterculture, who abandons
Christopher when she finds a more authentic Asian from the most
recent refugee communities spawned at the end of the Vietnam War.
Throughout Christopher's voyage to discover his past, the imaginary
China he and his family have envisioned in their American diaspora
collides with the reality of China at the end of the millennium.
Set against the backdrop of America's wars in Asia and the
assimilation of that experience - the refugees, the stereotypes,
the food--Eat Everything Before You Die is an ironic commentary on
the identities the children of Chinese American immigrants concoct
from their questionable histories, cultural practices, and survival
strategies. interested in the Asian American experience, and will
be of strong, enduring interest to students and scholars in Asian
American Studies.
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