{"product_id":"tomorrow-in-shanghai-stories-9781949467864","title":"Tomorrow in Shanghai: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA short story collection exploring cultural complexities in China, the Chinese diaspora in America, and the world at large.\u003c\/b\u003eIn a vibrant and illuminating follow-up to her award-winning story collection, \u003ci\u003eUseful Phrases for Immigrants\u003c\/i\u003e, May-lee Chai's latest collection \u003ci\u003eTomorrow in Shanghai\u003c\/i\u003e explores multicultural complexities through lenses of class, wealth, age, gender, and sexuality--always tracking the nuanced, knotty, and intricate exchanges of interpersonal and institutional power. These stories transport the reader, variously: to rural China, where a city doctor harvests organs to fund a wedding and a future for his family; on a vacation to France, where a white mother and her biracial daughter cannot escape their fraught relationship; inside the unexpected romance of two Chinese-American women living abroad in China; and finally, to a future Chinese colony on Mars, where an aging working-class woman lands a job as a nanny. Chai's stories are essential reading for an increasingly globalized world.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMay-lee Chai\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the American Book Award-winning story collection \u003ci\u003eUseful Phrases for Immigrants\u003c\/i\u003e and ten other books. Her prize-winning short prose has been published widely, including in the \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMissouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSeventeen\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZYZZYVA\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDallas Morning News\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e. The recipient of an NEA fellowship in prose, Chai is an associate professor in the Creative Writing Department at San Francisco State University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blair","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50525696196882,"sku":"9781949467864","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7e0cbb10-379b-4222-bf43-c2c275aa8e7d.jpg?v=1731233708","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tomorrow-in-shanghai-stories-9781949467864","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}