chinese american families

Presents a collection of short nonfiction writings by novelist Amy Tan, including university talks, eulogies, E-mails, and poems, all united by Tan's musings on the role of luck in her life.

San Francisco ghostwriter Ruth Young finally begins to understand her Alzheimer's-afflicted mother LuLing's preoccupation with ghosts and curses when she reads Luling's writings of her dark backwoods childhood in 1920s China--where LuLing's mute, disfigured nursemaid committed suicide, and a nearby cave held what may have been the bones of the lost ancient hominid Peking Man.

Presents a collection of short nonfiction writings by novelist Amy Tan, including university talks, eulogies, E-mails, and poems, all united by Tan's musings on the role of luck in her life.

The story of two generations of the Leong family living in the heart of San Francisco's Chinatown in an uneasy tension.

Fourteen-year-old Candace Ong finally gets her chance to get away from working in her parents' restaurant for the summer, but the world beyond what she is used to may be more than she can handle.

An-ying, teenage daughter of Chinese immigrants, is having a difficult time breaking away from her parents' Chinese traditions in order to choose her own friends and accept a scholarship at an American college.

Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything.

Mona Chang, the American-born daughter of Chinese immigrants, fully embraces the ideals of freedom and converts to Judaism in the first of many rebellions she stages in her search for individualism while growing up in the 1960s and 1970s.

Lifelong friends, Winnie and Helen, have kept each other's secrets for more than fifty years. It's now time for Winnie to tell her daughter, Pearl, about her past, which is a journey from a small island outside of Shanghai in the 1920's, across a ravaged China during World War II and eventually to the United States. Her tale contains a secret that not even Helen knows.

Tells the story of a Chinese American family's relationship while relating how Kai Ting learned to survive in a black San Francisco slum in the 1950s.