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Literature & Fiction

Women's Fiction

Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen: A Manifesto in 41 Tales

Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen: A Manifesto in 41 Tales

An uproarious debut that lays bare the complicated generational relationships of Chinese American women.
Raucous twin sisters Moonie and Mei Ling Wong are known as the â€œdouble happinessâ€ Chinese food delivery girls. Each day they load up a â€œcrappy donkey-vanâ€ and deliver Americanized (â€œbadâ€) Chinese food to homes throughout their southern California neighborhood. United in their desire to blossom into somebodies, the Wong girls fearlessly assert their intellect and sexuality, even as they come of age under the care of their dominating, cleaver-wielding grandmother from Hong Kong. They transform themselves from food delivery girls into accomplished women, but along the way they wrestle with the influence and continuity of their Chinese heritage.

Marilyn Chinâ€™s prose waxes and wanes between satire and metaphorical lyric, referencing classical Chinese tales and ghost stories that are at turns sensual, lurid, hilarious, shocking, and surreal.
Country USA
Brand W. W. Norton & Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Refer to Sapnet.
ReleaseDate 2009-09-21
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780393331455

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