American Born Chinese

"It’s very cool. I think it’s better known in the United States because of the splash he made with a book called American Born Chinese . He wrote about his ethnicity and he did this dual book on the Boxers because he said he grew up a Christian but Chinese ethnically, so he didn’t know who to root for. He pairs a story of a boy who becomes a Boxer and a Chinese girl who becomes a Catholic. There’s one other novel I’ve just started, Peach Blossom Paradise , a brand new historical novel with fanciful elements by Ge Fei that is set close to 1900 as well. It looks very good, but I’m not far enough along to be able to recommend it yet. I’ll be able to tell you more about that next time we speak. Part of our best books of 2020 series."