Troublemaker and Other Saints

Meet the Wongs, Shengs, and Tsuis. Each of these families has its own troubles and secrets. But the three clans-whose members include a matriarch who talks to dead relatives, her nymphomaniac granddaughter, and a street punk-share a past and face a common future. Hailed by critics, Troublemaker "refracts classic old-vs.-new-world tensions through the prism of second-generation Chinese-American Gen-Xers." (Time)Author Biography: Christina Chiu has an MFA in writing from Columbia University and has won grants from, among others, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation. One of the original founders of the Asian American Writers Workshop, she received its Van Lier Fellowship.