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Michael Tang and his sister, Emily, have both struggled to forge a sense of identity in their parents' adopted homeland. Emily, an immigration lawyer in New York City, baffles their mother, Ling, by refusing to have children. At twenty-six, Michael is unable to commit to a relationship or a career-or come out to his family. And now their father, after a lifetime of sacrifice, has passed away.
When Michael finds a letter to his father from a long-ago...
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"I suppose I did it because I wanted something to show for the thirty years-longer than I had lived in my homeland-that I had been here in America. Something that was properly appreciated, even if someone else got all the credit."
Liu Qingwu doesn't set out to commit a crime. He only wants to sell a painting-something more substantial than the Impressionist knockoffs he flogs to tourists outside New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. But the lucrative...
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