DECEIT AND OTHER POSSIBILITIES - Tecno-Libro

in this powerful debut collection, Vanessa Hua gives voice to immigrant families .navigating .a new America. .Tied to their ancestral and adopted homelands in ways unimaginable in generations past, these memorable characters straddle both worlds but belong to none. These .stories shine a light on immigrant families navigating a new America, straddling cultures and continents, veering .between .dream .and disappointment. .From a Hong Kong movie idol fleeing a sex scandal, to an obedient daughter turned Stanford pretender, from a Chinatown elder summoned to his village, to a Korean-American pastor with a secret .agenda, the characters in the collection illustrate the conflict .between .self and society, tradition and change. in What We Have is What We Need, winner of . The Atlantic .student fiction prize, a boy from Mexico reunites with his parents in San Francisco. When he suspects his mother has found love elsewhere, he fight