As sneakily addictive as a game of Pong (which was named, were told, after the narrators dad), this zany zip-line of a novel takes the piss out of the Asian-American good immigrant story. Full of charming antiheroes making comically bad choices, the story dazzles us with its absurdity, which makes its eventual wisdom--about lineage, ethnicity, and the meaning of family--all the more wonderfully surprising.
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