TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lescure,Aube Rey
TI  - River east, river west: a novel 
SN  - 9780063257856
U1  - 813/.6 23/eng/20231227
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
KW  - Americans
KW  - China
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Multiracial teenagers
KW  - Teenagers
KW  - sears
KW  - Mother-daughter relationship
KW  - Man-woman relationship
KW  - Adultery
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Shanghai (China)
KW  - Chine
KW  - Mœurs et coutumes
KW  - Romans, nouvelles, etc
KW  - Politique et gouvernement
KW  - History
KW  - Bildungsromans
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
KW  - Romans
KW  - rvmgf
N2  - Set against the backdrop of developing modern China, a new novel is a coming-of-age tale, part family and social drama, as it follows two generations searching for belonging and opportunity in a rapidly changing world; Shanghai, 2007: Fourteen-year-old Alva has always longed for more. Raised by her American expat mother, she's never known her Chinese father, and is certain a better life awaits them in America. But when her mother announces her engagement to their wealthy Chinese landlord, Lu Fang, Alva's hopes are dashed, and so she plots for the next best thing: the American School in Shanghai. Upon admission, though, Alva is surprised to discover an institution run by an exclusive community of expats and the ever-wilder thrills of a city where foreigners can ostensibly act as they please. 1985: In the seaside city of Qingdao, Lu Fang is a young, married man and a lowly clerk in a shipping yard. Though he once dreamed of a bright future, he is one of many casualties in his country's harsh political reforms. So when China opens its doors to the first wave of foreigners in decades, Lu Fang's world is split wide open after he meets an American woman who makes him confront difficult questions about his current status in life, and how much will ever be enough
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