{"product_id":"across-a-green-ocean-isbn-9781617734878","title":"Across a Green Ocean","description":"Michael Tang and   his sister, Emily, have both struggled to forge a sense of identity in their   parents' adopted homeland. Emily, an immigration lawyer in New York City,   baffles their mother, Ling, by refusing to have children. At twenty-six,   Michael is unable to commit to a relationship or a career--or come out to his   family. And now their father, after a lifetime of sacrifice, has passed   away.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Michael finds a letter to his father from a   long-ago friend, he impulsively travels to China in the hopes of learning   more about a man he never really knew. In this rapidly modernizing country he   begins to understand his father's decisions, including one that reverberates   into the present day. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, Ling and   Emily question their own choices, trying to forge a path that bends toward   new loves and fresh beginnings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWendy Lee's powerfully   honest novel captures the complexity of the immigrant experience, exploring   one family's hidden history, unspoken hurts, and search for a place to call   home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlong the whitewashed mud walls are large Chinese   characters written in red, sometimes ending with an exclamation point. They   look as if they are out of another time period, probably some kind of   propaganda. \u003ci\u003eGo back!\u003c\/i\u003e Michael imagines them saying, in a   private message just for him. \u003ci\u003eThis is a mistake! You won't find what   you're looking for! \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat, or rather who, Michael   is hoping to find at the end of his trip is a man named Liao Weishu. This is   the name that is signed at the end of a letter that Michael discovered among   his father's things after the funeral. Then his mother had come into the   room, and he had put the letter in his pants pocket, where it stayed unopened   for another nine months. Sometimes he would think about it, and be satisfied   enough to simply know it was there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe postmark indicated   it had been sent about a month before his father's death, from someplace in   China that he had never heard of and didn't think he knew how to pronounce.   Unfortunately, it was written in Chinese, except for one sentence toward the   end of the letter--\u003ci\u003eEverything has been forgiven.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWendy Lee\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eAcross a Green Ocean\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHappy Family\u003c\/i\u003e, which was named one of the top ten debuts of 2008 by \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e and received an honorable mention from the Association of Asian American Studies. A graduate of New York University’s Creative Writing Program, she has worked as a book editor and an English teacher in China. She lives in Queens, New York.","brand":"Kensington","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303968166117,"sku":"NP9781617734878","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781617734878.jpg?v=1767721029","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/across-a-green-ocean-isbn-9781617734878","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}