Everything Asian

A funny and incisive Korean family coming-of-age novel in stories about a 12-year-old boy who moves with his mother and sister from Korea to work at their father''s Asian gift shop in a New Jersey strip mall--and the growing pains that ensueYou''re twelve years old. A month has passed since your Korean Air flight landed at lovely Newark Airport. Your fifteen-year-old sister is miserable. Your mother isn''t exactly happy either. You''re seeing your father for the first time in five years and although he''s nice enough he might be well--how can you put this delicately?--a loser.You can''t speak English but that doesn''t stop you from working at East Meets West your father''s gift shop in a strip mall where everything is new.Welcome to the wonderful world of David Kim.