‘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 his lifelong ambivalence as one trapped between two cultures and between two parents holding intolerable secrets.
Kevin Chong is the author of the novel
Baroque-a-Nova (Plume) and the memoir
Neil Young Nation (Greystone Books).
About the author
Kevin Chong: Kevin Chong was born in Hong Kong in 1975 and raised in Vancouver. He is the author of a novel,
Baroque-a-Nova (Plume, 2002), a music memoir entitled
Neil Young Nation (Greystone/PGW, 2005), and a forthcoming memoir on horse-racing. He lives in Vancouver.