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Reviewed by: Cath

Rating: 3/10

Genre: Asian/Romance/General Fiction
240 pages/1995

American Knees
by
Shawn Wong


"Asian-American studies professor Wong presents a romantic comedy about cross-cultural identities. In this light-hearted novel, American born Chinese Raymond Ding finds true happiness with a half-Japanese, half-American beauty."

I looked it up on Amazon, everybody seemed to like it a lot and thought it was a great book. I, on the other hand, could not get into it. It started quite funny, very witty... But after a hundred pages of talk about who you should date and why or why not or which race that significant other should belong to or not, if it matters etc. I was thoroughly bored. Perhaps Asian writers are just not for me.

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