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Publisher:
Avon / HarperCollins |
Release
Date: 2004 |
ISBN:
0060560754 |
Awards:
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Format
Reviewed: Trade Paperback |
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Genre:
Fiction-General |
Reviewed:
2004 |
Reviewer:
Jen Oliver |
Reviewer
Notes: Chinese-American characters |
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The
Dim Sum of All Things
By Kim Wong Keltner
The
Dim Sum of All Things takes an in-depth look at Chinese culture
and does it in a slightly humorous manner. Lindsey Owyang is a lonely
secretary who resides with her Chinese grandmother and seeks for
more than a Chinese way of life. The Dim Sum of All Things
takes a reader throughout many stereotypical Chinese traditions
and explains them in a simple and humorous way. It also explains
how some Chinese-Americans incorporate their time-honored Chinese
ways into today's American society. The Dim Sum of All Things takes
the Chinese way of life, romance, and general American ways, and
incorporates all of them in a way that makes it easy for a reader
to sift through. At first, it was a struggle for this reader to
get a feeling of Lindsey, but after a while this reader was fully
engulfed in Lindsey's experiences with her grandmother and the office
man that she has a crush on. The story line has several little things
added into it, which makes the book an overall entertaining read.
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