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Bibliographic Information
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Number one Chinese restaurant : a novel
First edition.
- Author
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Li, Lillian.
- Publisher:
- Henry Holt and Company,
- Pub date:
- 2018.
- Pages:
- 290 pages ;
- ISBN:
- 9781250141293
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Item info:
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1 copy available in
Adult fiction shelves.
1 copy total in all locations.
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Adult Fiction in Hardcover
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Number one Chinese restaurant : a novel
First edition.
Li, Lillian.
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Number one Chinese restaurant : a novel
First edition.
Li, Lillian.
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Personal Author:
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Li, Lillian.
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Title:
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Number one Chinese restaurant : a novel / Lillian Li.
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Edition:
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First edition.
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Physical description:
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290 pages ; 25 cm
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Summary:
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"The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family's controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced restaurant life has kept at bay. Owner Jimmy Han hopes to leave his late father's homespun establishment for a fancier one. Jimmy's older brother, Johnny, and Johnny's daughter, Annie, ache to return to a time before a father's absence and a teenager's silence pushed them apart. Nan and Ah-Jack, longtime Duck House employees, are tempted to turn their thirty-year friendship into something else, even as Nan's son, Pat, struggles to stay out of trouble. And when Pat and Annie, caught in a mix of youthful lust and boredom, find themselves in a dangerous game that implicates them in the Duck House tragedy, their families must decide how much they are willing to sacrifice to help their children."--Jacket.
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Subject term:
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Chinese restaurants--Fiction.
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Subject term:
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Families--Fiction.
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Subject term:
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Family life--Fiction.