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American Knees Author: American Knees is about relationships, sex, work, and family obligations. In other words, it's about life. "American Knees (a takeoff on the old schoolyard song, 'Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees. . .') is the story of how Raymond Ding, a politically correct man with a politically incorrect sense of humor, falls into, and out of, love with newspa... more »
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Part love story, part race-relations study. Raymond is a Chinese American, raised in San Francisco's Chinatown and is head of a college minority relations program. Aurora is half Caucasian, half Japanese, raised in a white neighborhood. When Asian Americans date, does race matter? And how much of race matters? Are you part Asian, then part datee? These questions and more like them are explored with a humorous voice. Enjoyable, though some points are hard to comprehend if there is no racial diversity in your community.
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By page 50 I was still trying to care about the characters...I gave up at that point.
Genres:
- Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States >> Asian American >> General
- Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States >> Asian American >> Wong, Shawn
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Contemporary
- Literature & Fiction >> General >> Literary