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It'd been a couple years since Sybil filed for divorce. As an attorney married to a surgeon, she found herself pregnant. Dr. Nicholas Amaraz knew it wasn't his child, but he didn't want to end his marriage either. He didn't believe in divorce.

He lived alone, and his days were long and somewhat lonely until the day he walked into Pepe's Restaurant. The cuisine was impressive, the atmosphere was pleasant, and the owner, Peter, was an inquisitive, congenial and faith-based individual who learned that faith-based Dr. Amaraz was also an excellent chef.

One evening, as he was...

Sometimes it's more prudent to ignore a conceivable problem than to insert oneself into the middle of it and thinking you can make it go away. Kassie, a sensitive, caring person inserted herself into a situation her roommate and friend, Jackie, couldn't comprehend. Both were flight attendants, with different backgrounds and values. Their priorities and lifestyles were on the same page only after they changed professions. When they became registered nurses, they became a part of the medical profession, associating with physicians and surgeons, nursing staff and patients. Nothing prepared...

It'd been a couple years since Sybil filed for divorce. As an attorney married to a surgeon, she found herself pregnant. Dr. Nicholas Amaraz knew it wasn't his child, but he didn't want to end his marriage either. He didn't believe in divorce.

He lived alone, and his days were long and somewhat lonely until the day he walked into Pepe's Restaurant. The cuisine was impressive, the atmosphere was pleasant, and the owner, Peter, was an inquisitive, congenial and faith-based individual who learned that faith-based Dr. Amaraz was also an excellent chef.

One evening, as he was...

Sometimes it's more prudent to ignore a conceivable problem than to insert oneself into the middle of it and thinking you can make it go away. Kassie, a sensitive, caring person inserted herself into a situation her roommate and friend, Jackie, couldn't comprehend. Both were flight attendants, with different backgrounds and values. Their priorities and lifestyles were on the same page only after they changed professions. When they became registered nurses, they became a part of the medical profession, associating with physicians and surgeons, nursing staff and patients. Nothing prepared...

From the winner of the 2009 Iowa Short Fiction Prize--comes the extraordinary, unexpected debut tale of three generations of Chinese-American women in a San Francisco family who must confront their past and carve out a future.

The Kong women are in crisis. A disastrous trip to visit her "home" orphanage in China has plunged eighteen-year-old Ari into a self-destructive spiral. Her adoptive mother, Charlie, a lawyer with a great heart, is desperate to keep her daughter safe. Meanwhile, Charlie must endure the prickly scrutiny of her beautiful, Bryn Mawr educated mother, Gran--who, as...