ABOUT
THE BOOK

Sterling Lung grew up in the back of his parents’ laundry dreaming of being an American, while speaking Chinese to his mother, English to his friends and very little to the father he seemed always to disappoint.
Now twenty-six and a graduate of Swarthmore and the Culinary Institute of America, Sterling cooks French food for the Wasp ladies of a private club and conducts an arm’s length affair with a Jewish-American princess, thereby frustrating his father’s dream of a doctor son and his mother’s scheme for a Chinese bride. For Sterling’s parents the barbarians are already here.