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GCDS-9780872863316 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100627000 02 087286331X 03 9780872863316 15 9780872863316 BC 1 A01 Chin, Sara Sara Chin Sara Chin lives and works in San Francisco. 01 eng 147 01 <P>Whether it's an immigrant woman who loves to watch American action movies or a young American-born woman who joins a film crew in China, these stories are about Chinese Americans trying to make sense of their divided history and culture. As both the immigrant and the American-raised generations succumb to some deeply American impulses, notions of home and language and self get misplaced, repositioned, changed, and history and memory are reinvented by nostalgia, dreams, and desire.<br> Sara Chin lives and works in San Francisco.</P> 02 Whether it's an immigrant woman who loves to watch American action movies or a young American-born woman who joins a film crew in China, these stories are about Chinese Americans trying to make sense of their divided history and culture. As both the... 08 "Below the Line is a page-turner, a rich and satisfying collection. The language is lean and elegant, the humor sly, the characters poignant, quirky, and all-too human, moving with jet-set ease from East to West, and back again... Sara Chin is a smart, welcome new voice in contemporary fiction." Jessica Hagedorn 08 "Sara Chin, with careful ear, takes the reader below the line, where guttural utterances like eh and nh matter, where sounds of immigrant life intrude on a muted screen filled with American signage and gesture." Karen Tei Yamashita 08 "Sara Chin writes with subtlety, wit, and feeling...Which one of us cannot identify in some way with the lonely exile's tragicomic struggle for survival and meaning, like the immigrant father who, having made it though bombings and political upheaval in China, gets frantically lost circling the Washington, D.C. Beltway loop? These wonderful stories express a luminous intelligence and are told with compassion." Elaine Kim 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100627000/images/87286100627000L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100627000/images/87286100627000S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100627000 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19971101 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 19971101 01 02 9.95 USD