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Honor and Duty
In a stunning new novel by the author of the widely acclaimed China Boy, provocative issues, from the American military to racial stereotypes to identity - both national and cultural - come together to create a literary tour de force about the Chinese-American experience. Kai Ting is a cadet at West Point in the 1960s. He comes to the military academy from his turbulent San Francisco boyhood with the hope of honoring his father, a former officer in Chiang Kai-shek's army who never came to terms with his new life in America, where he was stripped of his native culture; of escaping his stepmother, a stern, uncaring American woman; and, above all, of becoming firmly and undeniably American. And he leaves behind Uncle Shim, his confidant and friend, the person who had served as a Chinese conscience throughout Kai's youth. But as one of the very few Asians at the Point and with the...
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