Kevin Chong
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"Beauty plus pity—that is the closest we can get to a definition of art."
—Vladimir Nabokov
In this tragicomic, modern immigrant's tale, Malcolm Kwan is a twentysomething Asian American embarking on a modeling career whose life is derailed when his father dies and his fiancée leaves him. When he meets the half-sister he never knew existed—the result of his father's extramarital affair—he must work through
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Kevin Chong has grand plans. He draws up a to-do list of major milestones that will give him the life he always wantedand the life that will inspire awe and envy in his friends. Things like settling down and starting a family; learning a foreign language; getting a tattoo. But these grand plans go out the window when Chong makes an unconventional decision: he's going to buy a racehorse. Not the whole thinghe'll become partowner of...
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This comprehensive guide provides practical tips for decluttering specific areas of your home and offers strategies for decluttering your digital life.What sets this guide apart is its focus on the emotional and sustainable aspects of decluttering.If you desire to reduce stress, improve focus, and increase productivity while creating a more organized, beautiful environment and experiencing a greater sense of peace and well-being, "Decluttering Transformed"...
4) The Plague
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At first it was the dead rats. They started dying in cataclysmic numbers, followed by other city creatures. Then people begin experiencing flu-like symptoms as well as swellings in their lymph nodes. The citizenry reacts in disbelief when the diagnosis comes in and later, when a quarantine is imposed on the increasingly terrified city. Inspired by Albert Camus' classic 1948 novel, Kevin Chong's The Plague follows Dr. Bernard Rieux's attempts to fight...
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A unique work of metafiction follows Benson Yu, a writer, who loses control of his own narrative when he attempts to write the story of his fraught upbringing in 1980s Chinatown.
In a Chinatown housing project lives twelve-year-old Benny, his ailing grandmother, and his strange neighbor Constantine, a man who believes he's a reincarnated medieval samurai. When his grandmother is hospitalized, Benny manages to survive on his own until a social worker...