Description
In a bustling Maryland Chinese restaurant, generations of workers and family members have built their lives around shared meals, old loyalties, and carefully contained tensions. When a sudden catastrophe disrupts the restaurant’s fragile order, its owner, employees, and relatives are forced to confront buried resentments, uncertain ambitions, complicated romances, and the lasting effects of absence. Moving between the perspectives of those who cook, serve, inherit, and depend on the restaurant, the novel explores family, immigration, class, desire, and the bonds formed through work. With vivid ensemble storytelling and sharp emotional insight, it portrays a community struggling to decide what—and whom—it is willing to protect.
Available Editions
paperback
Holt & Company, Henry
Published Jan 1, 2018
303 pages
ISBN: 9781250141309
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Details
First Published
2018
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li.