The writers included in this ground-breaking anthology are exhilarating in their differences: cultural backgrounds, age range, literary styles. From Jose Garcia Villa's minimalist "Untitled Story, " first published in 1933, to Meena Alexander's "Manhattan Music, " with its razor-sharp look at the hip downtown New York art scene of the troubled 1990s, their stories sweep across the twentieth century and across the range of Asian American experience. These characters make love, worry about the future, endure hardships. They audition for jobs as anchormen. They are displaced, assimilated, rebellious. They lie and cheat; they betray themselves and others. These are stories about Asian Americans, yes, but, finally, they are stories about life.
- ISBN10 0140231110
- ISBN13 9780140231113
- Publish Date 9 December 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 January 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 608
- Language English