Fully booked: January titles to take you to faraway places
1. The Chinese Groove, by Kathryn Ma
It’s 2015, and 18-year-old budding poet Xue Li – call him Shelley – has bid China farewell for a new life in fog-shrouded San Francisco at the home of his “rich uncle.” Reality quickly reveals an extended family under financial and emotional strain, plus a city far different from his expectations.
Shelley narrates his newcomer
