03035cam a2200313 4500 607766926 TxAuBib 20220821120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780316441896 0316441899 B0776RC3DD Amazon 05c8463e-4824-42a5-9190-978ae1b4896d OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3631089 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Tan, Lucy. What We Were Promised [Bridges eBook]. Little, Brown and Company, 2018. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 7535kB. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 8MB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<b>Set in modern Shanghai, a debut by a Chinese-American writer about a prodigal son whose unexpected return forces his newly wealthy family to confront painful secrets and unfulfilled promises.</b><br /> After years of chasing the American dream, the Zhen family has moved back to China. Settling into a luxurious serviced apartment in Shanghai, Wei, Lina, and their daughter, Karen, join an elite community of Chinese-born, Western-educated professionals who have returned to a radically transformed city.<br /> One morning, in the eighth tower of Lanson Suites, Lina discovers that a treasured ivory bracelet has gone missing. This incident sets off a wave of unease that ripples throughout the Zhen household. Wei, a marketing strategist, bows under the guilt of not having engaged in nobler work. Meanwhile, Lina, lonely in her new life of leisure, assumes the modern moniker taitai -a housewife who does no housework at all.<br /> She is haunted by the circumstances surrounding her arranged marriage to Wei and her lingering feelings for his brother, Qiang. Sunny, the family's housekeeper, is a keen but silent observer of these tensions. An unmarried woman trying to carve a place for herself in society, she understands the power of well-kept secrets. When Qiang reappears in Shanghai after decades on the run with a local gang, the family must finally come to terms with the past and its indelible mark on their futures.<br /> From a silk-producing village in rural China, up the corporate ladder in suburban America, and back again to the post-Maoist nouveaux riches of modern Shanghai, <i>What We Were Promised</i> explores the question of what we owe to our country, our families, and ourselves. Literature. Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-10-19 20:00:02. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=05c8463e-4824-42a5-9190-978ae1b4896d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=05c8463e-4824-42a5-9190-978ae1b4896d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=05c8463e-4824-42a5-9190-978ae1b4896d&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)