Bone

"Brutal and poignant, dreamy and gritty, specific to its place and resonant in its implication about what it means to be an American."-- "Seattle Times/Post-Intelligence""An incantory first novel . . . [Ms. Ng] is blessed with a poet's gift for metaphor and a reporter's eye for detail."-- Michiko Kakutani, "New York Times""With the magic of art, this freshly beautiful, new young writer hastaken strands of lives and experiences central to our understandings ofour country, our time--for many of us, ourselves--and out of passionate caring, astonishing mature comprehension, has interwoven them into thisone seamless, luminous book--to read and reread." -- Tillie Olsen"Bone is written in a perfectly clear, undecorated prose that stops the eye at every sentence. Simply by telling the unadorned facts of the story, Ms. Ng makes it clear that moving across town to a new neighborhood can be, in its own way, as hard as crossing the Pacific Ocean.' -- "New York Times Book Review""The wiry, unpretentious prose of Bone exhibits sustained emotional power. . . It clearly announces the emergence of an impressive talent on the landscape of the American novel." -- "Boston Globe""An extraordinary first novel . . . A hopeful, charming, and surprisingly joyous work." -- "Chicago Tribune"

A profoundly moving journey into San Francisco's Chinatown that is "brutal and poignant, dreamy and gritty, specific to its place and resonant in its implication about what it means to be an American."-- "Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer"