A Long Stay in a Distant Land, Chieh Chieng
A Long Stay in a Distant Land, Chieh Chieng
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A Long Stay in a Distant Land

Author: Chieh Chieng

Narrator: James Yaegashi

Unabridged: 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/27/2005

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

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.

About Chieh Chieng

Chieh Chieng was born in Hong Kong and moved to Orange County, California, at the age of seven. He graduated from the creative writing program at the University of California, Irvine, and has been published in several literary magazines.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

Cute Immigrants (2013) Chieng, Chieh (2005). A Long Stay In A Distant Land. New York: Bloomsbury. This quirky, multi-generational family story begins in southern California. The Lum family are Chinese-American and seem to be middle class. Louis works for a magazine but moves back home to tend his fat......more

Goodreads review by Em

In writing A Long Stay in a Distant Land, Chieh Chieng isn’t creating Benadryl—a phrase often uttered by the Lum family matriarch whenever anyone makes an unsatisfactory excuse. It, like the Lum lineage on the cover of this novel, can be traced back to the 1940s, when Louis Lum’s great-uncle Phil wa......more

Goodreads review by Jerjonji

The New York Times views this story as a "coming-of-age" story, but for me, the novel was more about discovering who the other people in your family really are instead of discovering who you are. Lewis Lum is convinced that the Lum family is cursed and that Death is collecting the remaining members......more

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