The Confessions Of A Number One Son Av Frank Chin

In the early 1970s, Frank Chin, the outspoken Chinese American author of such plays as The Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon, wrote a fulllength novel that was never published and presumably lost. Nearly four decades later, Calvin McMillin, a literary scholar specializing in Asian American literature,would discover Chin¿s original manuscripts and embark on an extensive restoration project. Meticulously reassembled from multiple extant drafts, Frank Chin¿s ¿forgotten¿ novel is a sequel to The Chickencoop Chinaman and follows the further misadventures of Tam Lum, the original play¿s witty protagonist. Haunted by the bitter memories of a failed marriage and the untimely death of a beloved family member, Tam flees San Francisco¿s Chinatown for a life of self-imposed exile on the Hawaiian island of Maui. After burning his sole copy of a manuscript he believed would someday be hailed as ¿The Great Chinese American Novel,¿ Tam stumbles into an unlikely romance with Lily, a forme