Tomorrow in Shanghai: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781949467864)

A short story collection exploring cultural complexities in China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and the world at large.In a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, May-lee Chai's latest collection Tomorrow in Shanghai explores multicultural complexities through lenses of class, wealth, age, gender, and sexuality--always tracking the nuanced, knotty, and intricate exchanges of interpersonal and institutional power. These stories transport the reader, variously: to rural China, where a city doctor harvests organs to fund a wedding and a future for his family; on a vacation to France, where a white mother and her biracial daughter cannot escape their fraught relationship; inside the unexpected romance of two Chinese-American women living abroad in China; and finally, to a future Chinese colony on Mars, where an aging working-class woman lands a job as a nanny. Chai's stories are essential reading for an increasingly globalized world.

Author: May-Lee Chai
ISBN-10: 1949467864
ISBN-13: 9781949467864
Publisher: Blair
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2022
Pages: 166
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.40w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/06/2022
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2022
Booklist 06/30/2022