Number One Chinese Restaurant

About the author

Lillian Li received her BA from Princeton and her MFA from the University of Michigan. She has received the Hopwood Award in Short Fiction, and her work has been featured in Guernica, Granta and Jezebel. She currently teaches English composition and Creative Writing at the University of Michigan and works as a bookseller at Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor.

Summary

An exuberant and wise multigenerational debut novel about the complicated lives and loves of people working in a local Chinese restaurant.
The popular Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland has been serving devoted regulars for decades, but behind the staff's professional masks simmer tensions, heartaches and grudges from decades of gruelling service work.

Foreword

The sharply comic debut about the tangled lives of people working, fighting and falling in love in a neighbourhood Chinese restaurant

Product details

• Authors: Lillian Li
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781911590163
• ISBN: 978-1-911590-16-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature