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fourteen of the city's finest authors explore the dark heart of the Pearl of the Orient in haunting stories of depravity and despair

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A Good Fall (Vintage International) W. Norton she finds her challenges haveIn his first book of stories since The Bridegroom, National Book Award winning author Ha Jin gives us a collection that delves into the experience of Chinese immigrants in America. A lonely composer takes comfort in the antics of his girlfriend's parakeet; young children decide to change their names so they might sound more "American," unaware of how deeply this will hurt their grandparents; a Chinese professor of English attempts to defect with the