American_Knees
American Knees is a novel written by Shawn Wong, and was first published in 1995 by Simon & Schuster, and later republished by the University of Washington Press in 2005. It was conceived as a cultural response to Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club,[citation needed] Wong's book depicts the love life of an East Asian American man with three women.
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This book chronicles the romantic chapters in the life of Raymond Ding, a Chinese-American university administrator who first marries and divorces a Chinese-American woman, then dates and breaks up with a hapa (biracial) younger woman, and later gets involved with a Vietnamese-American co-worker who was haunted by memories of the war.