{"product_id":"9780997199628","title":"Deceit and Other Possibilities","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this powerful debut collection, Vanessa Hua gives voice to immigrant families navigating a new America. Tied to their ancestral and adopted homelands in ways unimaginable in generations past, these memorable characters straddle both worlds but belong to none.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese stories shine a light on immigrant families navigating a new America, straddling cultures and continents, veering between dream and disappointment. From a Hong Kong movie idol fleeing a sex scandal, to an obedient daughter turned Stanford pretender, from a Chinatown elder summoned to his village, to a Korean-American pastor with a secret agenda, the characters in the collection illustrate the conflict between self and society, tradition and change. In “What We Have is What We Need,” winner of \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e student fiction prize, a boy from Mexico reunites with his parents in San Francisco. When he suspects his mother has found love elsewhere, he fights to keep his family together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith insight and wit, she writes about what wounds us and what we must survive. \u003cem\u003eDeceit and Other Possibilities \u003c\/em\u003emarks the emergence of a remarkable new writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVanessa Hua is an award-winning journalist and writer, and a columnist for the \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e. For nearly two decades, she has been writing about Asia and the diaspora, filing stories from China, Burma, Panama, South Korea, Abu Dhabi, and Ecuador. Her fiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eZYZZYVA\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGuernica\u003c\/em\u003e, and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aquarius Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47017911845104,"sku":"9780997199628","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780997199628_p0.jpg?v=1763943824","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780997199628","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}