A Long Stay in a Distant Land
A Novel
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2008
256 pages
978-1-59691-740-8 (ISBN)
Description
The Lums are cursed. Their early deaths come randomly, strangely, and often, be it by tainted cheeseburger or speeding ice cream truck. The most recent victim is Louis Lum's mother. Now Louis must move back home with his gangsta rap-obsessed father, Sonny, to prevent him from enacting the revenge he promises. But soon Louis's concern shifts to his uncle Bo Lum, who has disappeared in Hong Kong. As Louis's search progresses, the tragicomic story of three generations of Lums in America is revealed.
Chieh Chieng graduated from the creative writing program at the University of California, Irvine, and has been published in Glimmer Train, the Threepenny Review, and the Santa Monica Review.
* Chosen for Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writers Program *
"This is a dazzling debut: poignant, prickly, and deliciously absurd."-Booklist
"[Chieng is] a fresh comic voice…a touching and auspicious debut."-Orange Country Register
Chieh Chieng graduated from the creative writing program at the University of California, Irvine, and has been published in Glimmer Train, the Threepenny Review, and the Santa Monica Review.
* Chosen for Barnes and Noble's Discover Great New Writers Program *
"This is a dazzling debut: poignant, prickly, and deliciously absurd."-Booklist
"[Chieng is] a fresh comic voice…a touching and auspicious debut."-Orange Country Register
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
ISBN-13
978-1-59691-740-8 (9781596917408)
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Chieh Chieng was born in Hong Kong and moved to Orange County, California, at the age of seven. He graduated from the creative writing program at the University of California, Irvine, and has been published in Glimmer Train, The Threepenny Review, and the Santa Monica Review. He is twenty-nine years old.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- The Lums of Orange County, California (2002)
- Speaking Japanese Badly (2002)
- A Relentless Rain of Steel Death (2002)
- New Territory (1962)
- More Foreign than the Foreigners (1975)
- Sparking the Fire (1976)
- Deliverance at Yosemite (1976)
- Good Form (1989-2002)
- Lucky Boy (1988)
- The Impossibility of Two Trains Colliding at One Hundred Miles Per Hour (1968)
- Hard Times on Fairview (1978-1982)
- What Sonny Did for a Living (1979-1993)
- Calling the Ghosts (2002)
- A Great Time to Be Alive (1990-2002)
- Point of Departure (2002)
- Speaking Cantonese So-So Okay (1990)
- Gin and Juice (2002)
- The Vote to Decide Whether or Not Melvin Should Enlist (1943)
- Building Airplanes that Can't Fly (1942-1944)
- The Tragedy of Delicious Turnip Cakes (2002)
- A Really Strong Iron Gate (2002)
- Polyethylene Dreams (2002)
- The Genealogy of Bo (1261-2002)
- An Ideal Room (2002)
- One Thousand Cigars (1945)
- Tripping on Benadryl with Ah-Mah (2002)
- A Kind of Communion (1987-1988)
- Hersey Collins (2002)
- Melvin's Aphorisms (1955-1987)
- A Departure, An Arrival (1979-2002)
- Larry Redux (2002)
- The Dance of Good Fortune (2002)
