{"product_id":"beauty-plus-pity-9781551524153","title":"Beauty Plus Pity","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Beauty plus pity—that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Vladimir Nabokov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this tragicomic, modern immigrant's tale, Malcolm Kwan is a twentysomething Asian American embarking on a modeling career whose life is derailed when his father dies and his fiancée leaves him. When he meets the half-sister he never knew existed—the result of his father's extramarital affair—he must work through his lifelong ambivalence as one trapped between two cultures and between two parents holding intolerable secrets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin Chong\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eBaroque-a-Nova\u003c\/i\u003e (Plume) and the memoir \u003ci\u003eNeil Young Nation\u003c\/i\u003e (Greystone Books).\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kevin Chong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48278205235451,"sku":"9781551524153","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781551524153.jpg?v=1772484691","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/beauty-plus-pity-9781551524153","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}