My Good Son

From award-winning author Yang Huang, My Good Son explores the powerand the costof parental love. A tailor in post-Tiananmen China, Mr. Cai has one ambition: for his son, Feng, to make something of himself. With harsh discipline and relentless pressure, Mr. Cai succeeds in getting Feng ready to attend a U.S. college, but Feng needs a sponsor. When Mr. Cai meets a closeted American art student named Jude, they hatch a plan to benefit them both: get Feng to the US and help Jude come out to his conservative father. Their scheme will expose the fault lines in both Chinese and American culturesfather-son relationships, familial expectations, gender and sexuality, social status and mobility. Huang's writing abounds with sharp insights and a quiet humor, revealing the complexity of family relationships amidst two rapidly changing cultures.

Yang Huang grew up in Yangzhou, China. Through her writing, she explores the complexities of the Chinese and Chinese-American experience, focusing on the period beginning with the 1989 student uprisings, of which she took part, to contemporary times. Her linked story collection, My Old Faithful, won the Juniper Prize for fiction, and her debut novel, Living Treasures, won the Nautilus Book Award silver metal in fiction. She works for the University of California, Berkeley and lives in the Bay Area with her husband and two sons.

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