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The Chinese Groove A Novel by Kathryn Ma is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Chinese Groove A Novel about?
Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Prize Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An Amazon Editors' Pick People , A Best Book of the Year For readers of Less and The Wangs Vs. The World , a buoyant, good-hearted, and sharply written novel about a blithely optimistic immigrant with big dreams, dire prospects, and a fractured extended family in need of his help—even if they don't know it yet Eighteen-year-old Shelley, born into a much-despised branch of the Zheng family in Yunnan Province and living in the shadow of his widowed father’s grief, dreams of bigger things. Buoyed by an exuberant heart and his cousin Deng’s tall tales about the United States, Shelley heads to San Francisco to claim his destiny, confident that any hurdles will be easily overcome by the awesome powers of the “Chinese groove,” a belief in the unspoken bonds between countrymen that transcend time and borders. Upon arrival, Shelley is dismayed to find that his “rich uncle” is in fact his unemployed second cousin once removed and that the grand guest room he’d envisioned is but a scratchy sofa. The indefinite stay he’d planned for? That has a firm two-week exp
Who reads The Chinese Groove A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Kathryn Ma
- Publisher
- Counterpoint LLC
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781640096189
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Contemporary Fiction
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (413 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14