Troublemaker and Other Saints — Christina Chiu

Meet the Wongs, Shengs and Tsuis. Each of these families has its own troubles and secrets -- and something the other two want. But the three clans -- whose members include a matriarch who talks to dead relatives; her nymphomaniac granddaughter; an old man who reads only decades-old newspapers; and a street punk -- share a past and face a common future. Told in a sequence of interwoven stories, Troublemaker “refracts classic old-vs.-new-world tensions through the prism of second-generation Chinese-American Gen-Xers.” (Time)

Nominated for the Stephen Crane First Fiction Award