Excess Baggage: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0835100464
- ISBN-13
- 9780835100465
- Series
- Excess Baggage
- Category
- Chinese
- Pages
- 329
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- LONG RIVER PRESS
- Author
- Karen Ma
Description
Fiction. Asian Studies. EXCESS BAGGAGE chronicles two Chinese sisters, one raised in China during the tumultuous years of the Cultural Revolution; the other in Japan during the freewheeling years of bubble capitalism. They reunite as adults in Tokyo in the early 1990s and their family history soon catches up with them. As the sisters circle warily, their distrust grows, fueled by family lies and secrets. Exploring themes of identiy, alienation, love, jealousy, and family obligations in the face of cultural and geographic adversity, each must confront a fundamental question: what's the meaning of home when your roots aren't secure?
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