The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors will be released on April 13th, but is available for pre-order from Chop Suey Books for a 20% discount. Michele, herself a lightning strike survivor, is already working on her second novel, though I expect she will be kept pretty busy with all of the attention she will be receiving surrounding this novel. chop suey: noun a dish prepared chiefly from bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, water chestnuts, onions, mushrooms, and meat or fish and served with rice and soy sauce. This well-researched book comes with seventy-eight pages of notes and a thirty-one page bibliography. Chens study provides a sharp critique and rebuke to the degraded status accorded to Chinese American food and its creators. Intercut with sections from a handbook written by one of the characters, this book is as charged as the lightning that appears throughout. Chop Suey, USA is a wonderful American story, and a tasty one at that Gordon H. The novel follows two lost souls separated by time and place, from the moment lightning changes their lives until the day it ceases to define them. The building, which Tefft owns, isn’t part of the deal. Only the business and its assets are changing hands. Andrew Coe, Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in America (Oxford, 2009) As someone who both was born in 1968 and is a lover of Chinese food, I actually lived through much of the last chapter of Andrew Coes book, and I was somehow entirely unaware of it all. Chop Suey has adapted to the changing times by. WonTon, the store’s feline mascot, will stick around. Inside youll find a deceptively large selection of used books, hand-made notebooks, and graphic novels. This book has already been picked by Publisher's Weekly as one of 10 debut novels of 2010 to look out for, and is a great read for fans of Alice Hoffman and Wally Lamb. Chop Suey Books owner Ward Tefft plans to sell the bookstore to longtime customers Berkley and Chris McDaniel in a deal expected to close Friday. Oh, and Michele will be reading from and signing copies of her new novel! My mother pulled me closer to her leg, hugging her purse to her chest. My friends over there he pointed behind him, well, we would like to thank you. This event is free and open to the public, and will feature live music and great food. I stood beside my mother, wary of any stranger. On Sunday, April 18th from 5-7 pm, Michele Young-Stone will celebrate the publication of her first novel, The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, at Gallery 5.
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