The Chinese groove: a novel

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Author:
Ma, Kathryn
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Thondike Press large print diverse voices
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2023
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"Eighteen-year-old Shelley, born into a much-despised branch of the Zheng family in Yunnan Province and living in the shadow of his widowed father's grief, dreams of bigger things. Buoyed by an exuberant heart and his cousin Deng's tall tales about the United States, Shelley heads to San Francisco to claim his destiny, confident that any hurdles will be easily overcome by the awesome powers of the "Chinese groove," a belief in the unspoken bonds between countrymen that transcend time and borders"--

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Asian Americans -- Fiction
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Chinese -- United States -- Fiction
Families
Families -- Fiction
Fiction
Immigrants
Immigrants -- Fiction
Large print books
Literature
Novels
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction

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