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A hilarious and inventive first novel tracing three generations of your death-stalked Chinese-American family in Orange County, California
The Lums are cursed: ever since Grandpa Melvin was inspired to become listed on the U.S. army after watching a Popeye movie and-as family lore has it-unleashed a "relentless rain of steel death" upon the Nazis, Lum after Lum has been doomed with an untimely demise, whether it be by tainted cheeseburger or speeding ice cream truck. The most recent victim is Louis Lum's mother, as a result of a medical student asleep at the wheel. Now Louis, a fact checker at a hot rod magazine in his early twenties, must move back home with his gangsta rap-obsessed father, Sonny, to prevent him from enacting the revenge he promises. But soon Louis's concern shifts to some other wayward relative, his uncle Bo Lum, who have disappeared in Hong Kong after a long time of self-imposed exile. Following the twelve-monthly family meeting at Grandma Esther's house, Louis decides to leave his father and go to Hong Kong and discover Bo, his grandmother's favorite son. As Louis' search progresses, the tragicomic story of three generations of Lums in the us is revealed through the eyes of Louis, Sonny, and Grandma Esther. A novel about the unexpected ways love and myth work to both sustain and threaten family ties, A Long Stay static in a Distant Land introduces a wry and original new voice in American fiction.
