Central Places
A young woman's rootless past and uncertain future collide when she brings her white fianc home to meet her Chinese immigrant parents, toppling her carefully constructed life in this vibrant,…
Specifikacia Central Places
A young woman's rootless past and uncertain future collide when she brings her white fianc home to meet her Chinese immigrant parents, toppling her carefully constructed life in this vibrant, insightful debut from an exciting new voice in fiction.Audrey Zhou left Hickory Grove, the tiny town in central Illinois where she grew up, as soon as high school ended, and she never looked back. She moved to New York City and became the person she always wanted to be, complete with a high-paying, high-pressure job and a seemingly faultless fianc, Ben. But if she and Manhattan-bred Ben are to build a life together, in the dream home his parents will surely pay for, Audrey can no longer hide him, or the person she's become, from those she left behind.But returning to Hickory Grove is . . . complicated. Audrey's relationship with her parents has been soured by years of her mother's