viii, 211 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary
A memoir of growing up in a rural South Dakota university town with a Chinese-American father and an Irish Catholic mother offers a portrait of a loving family who finds tension, fear, racial anxiety, and violence in their new hometown.
Contents
1 The Wearing of the Green; 2 The Sexy Artist Meets the Boy From New York City; 3 How to Charm a Mother-in-Law; 4 California Dreamin'; 5 The Banana; 6 The Banana's Revenge; 7 Autumn in the Country; 8 Hunting Season; 9 The Little Things; 10 The Closet; 11 My Last Confession; 12 Bugs; 13 The Fall of the Prince; 14 The Jade Tree; 15 The Nights of Many Prayers; 16 What You Don't Know Can Hurt You; 17 Stephen King High; 18 Barbarians; 19 Glamour Puss; 20 The Cannibals; 21 The Fine Art of Denial
