Hapa Girl

May-lee Chai is the author of five books, My Lucky Face, The Girl from Purple Mountain (co-authored with Winberg Chai) and Glamorous Asians: Short Stories & Essays, and recipient of an NEA Grant in Literature.

"A tour-de-force sojourn into a never-before-told zone of small town American bigotry. Hapa Girl is consistently stylish, permanently courageous, bitingly tragic, but always rationally detached with a Marx Brothers' wit. This is May-lee Chai's best comment yet about America."-Anthony B. Chan, author of Perpetually Cool: The Many Lives of Anna May Wong

• PrologueChapter 1: The Wearing of the GreenChapter 2: The Sexy Artist Meets the Boy From New York CityChapter 3: How to Charm a Mother-in-LawChapter 4: California Dreamin'Chapter 5: The BananaChapter 6: The Banana's RevengeChapter 7: Autumn in the CountryChapter 8: Hunting SeasonChapter 9: The Little ThingsChapter 10: The ClosetChapter 11: My Last ConfessionChapter 12: BugsChapter 13: The Fall of the PrinceChapter 14: The Jade TreeChapter 15: The Nights of Many PrayersChapter 16: What You Don't Know Can Hurt YouChapter 17: Stephen King HighChapter 18: BarbariansChapter 19: Glamour PussChapter 20: The CannibalsChapter 21: The Fine Art of Denial