A Long Stay in a Distant Land

In this funny and inventive novel, the Lums are a deathstalked ChineseAmerican family living in Orange County, California. Ever since Grandpa Melvin was inspired to join the U.S. Army after watching a Popeye movie, Lum after Lum has been doomed to an untimely demise, be it by tainted cheeseburger or speeding icecream truck. Now young Louis must move back home with his father, Sonny, to prevent him from enacting the revenge he promises, while Louis also searches for a longlost uncle in Hong Kong.