Central Places by Cai, Delia
Central Places by Cai, Delia

Central Places

"A sensitive, sharp-eyed, slyly funny novel of venturing back into the foreign country that is your past--and...
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Author: Delia Cai
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Central Places by Cai, Delia

Central Places

$63.43
Central Places by Cai, Delia

Central Places

$63.43
Author: Delia Cai
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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"A sensitive, sharp-eyed, slyly funny novel of venturing back into the foreign country that is your past--and discovering that you can never really shake the places and people that shaped you."--Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts

A young woman's past and present collide when she brings her white fiancé home to meet her Chinese immigrant parents in this vibrant debut from an exciting new voice in fiction.

Audrey Zhou left Hickory Grove, the tiny central Illinois town where she grew up, as soon as high school ended, and she never looked back. She moved to New York City and became the person she always wanted to be, complete with a high-paying, high-pressure job and a seemingly faultless fiancé. But if she and Manhattan-bred Ben are to build a life together, in the dream home his parents will surely pay for, Audrey can no longer hide him, or the person she's become, from those she left behind.

But returning to Hickory Grove is . . . complicated. Audrey's relationship with her parents has been soured by years of her mother's astronomical expectations and slights. The friends she's shirked for bigger dreams have stayed behind and started families. And then there's Kyle, the easygoing stoner and her unrequited crush from high school that she finds herself drawn to again. Ben might be a perfect fit for New Audrey, but Kyle was always the only one who truly understood her growing up, and being around him again after all these years has Old Audrey bubbling up to the surface.

Over the course of one disastrous week, Audrey's proximity to her family and to Kyle forces her to confront the past and reexamine her fraught connection to her roots before she undoes everything she's worked toward and everything she's imagined for herself. But is that life really the one she wants?

Author: Delia Cai
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 01/31/2023
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780593497913


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 08/01/2022 pg. 11
Publishers Weekly 10/31/2022
Booklist 11/01/2022 pg. 44
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