Tomorrow in Shanghai by May-lee Chai [in Booklist]
05 Jul, by in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost, Short Stories
In her newest story collection, May-lee Chai (Useful Phrases for Immigrants, 2018) shifts dexterously between the personal and the fantastical. Four of the eight stories feature autobiographical stand-ins who are, like Chai, the daughter of a Chinese father and white mother whose formative years are defined...