TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ma,Kathryn
TI  - The Chinese groove: a novel 
SN  - 9781640095663
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Berkeley, California
PB  - Counterpoint
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Families
KW  - Asian Americans
KW  - American Dream
KW  - San Francisco (Calif.)
KW  - Novels
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
N2  - "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"--
ER  -