The Chinese Groove: A Novel YA_Gift_Guide Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu

Perfect for: Parents and grandparents

*Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR

"one of the ten or twenty great novels of our century

The Chinese Groove: A Novel YA_Gift_Guide Julie MehretuAnne Tyler meets Jade Chang in this buoyant, good hearted novel about a blithely optimistic immigrant with big dreams, dire prospects, and a fractured extended family in need of his helpeven if they don't know it yet Mas iteration of the young migrant story is imbued with inherent optimism."The New York Times Book Review Eighteen year old Shelley, born into a much despised branch of the Zheng family in Yunnan Province and living in the shadow of his