The Expatriates

✍ Scribed by Janice Y. K. Lee

• Book ID: 109341508
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 465 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780698404939

✦ Synopsis

"A female, funny Henry James in Asia, Janice Y. K. Lee is vividly good on the subject of Americans abroad."__-- The New York Times Book Review
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_"Sex and the City meets Lost in Translation." --The Skimm _
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Janice Y. K. Lee's New York Times bestselling debut, The Piano Teacher , was called "immensely satisfying" by People, "intensely readable" by O, The Oprah Magazine, and "a rare and exquisite story" by Elizabeth Gilbert. Now, in her long-awaited new novel, Lee explores with devastating poignancy the emotions, identities, and relationships of three very different American women living in the same small expat community in Hong Kong.
Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, is adrift, undone by a terrible incident in her recent past. Hilary, a wealthy housewife, is haunted by her struggle to have a child, something she believes could save her foundering...