Number One Chinese Restaurant: A Novel

"Lillian Li’s Number One Chinese Restaurant draws the reader to suburban Maryland, where the Beijing Duck House, owned and operated by one family, has been a fixture of the town for years. After a fire tears through the restaurant, tensions among the various generations that manage and staff the place flare, and questions of loyalty, romance and what should remain or go — old or new — surface. Li has a wonderful knack for using place to tell the backstory of an immigrant and Chinese-American family."