'Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown' expertly reveals a hidden immigrant world
Mar 21, 2018
3 minutes
On their first day in New York City, the young couple from China ignored the bagels and lox set out before them, marveled at the very idea of a laundromat and wondered why anyone would possibly need more than one knife in the kitchen. Then the husband and wife â one bold and blustery, the other quiet and shy â set about making a new American life like tens of millions of immigrants before them.
But Zhuang and "Little Yan" Liehong are anything
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