Number One Chinese Restaurant
β Scribed by Lillian Li
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 239 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Named a Summer Must-Read by TIME , Buzzfeed ,Star Tribune ,Fast Company ,The Village Voice ,The Wall Street Journal ,Toronto Star , and O, The Oprah Magazine
"A joy to read**--**I couldn't get enough."
--Buzzfeed
"This novel practically thumps with heartache and sharp humor."
**--****Chang-rae Lee,New York Times bestselling author of Native Speaker **
An exuberant and wise multigenerational debut novel about the complicated lives and loves of people working in everyone's favorite Chinese restaurant.
****The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this...
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