TY - BOOK AU - Ma,Kathryn TI - The Chinese Groove: a novel SN - 9781640095663 AV - PS3613.A13 C48 2023 U1 - 813/.6 23/eng/20220516 PY - 0000///January 242023/// CY - Berkeley California PB - Counterpoint KW - Young men KW - American Dream KW - Chinese families KW - local KW - Domestic fiction KW - San Francisco (Calif.) KW - Novels KW - lcgft N1 - new book 2023 spring N2 - "Eighteen-year-old Shelley, born into a much-despised branch of the Zheng family in Yunnan Province and living in the shadow of his widowed father's grief, dreams of bigger things. Buoyed by an exuberant heart and his cousin Deng's tall tales about the United States, Shelley heads to San Francisco to claim his destiny, confident that any hurdles will be easily overcome by the awesome powers of the "Chinese groove," a belief in the unspoken bonds between countrymen that transcend time and borders"-- ER -