Hanging On Union Square - H. T. Tsiang

A Subversively Comic, Genre-bending Satire Of Bourgeois Life By An Essential Chinese American Voice, Featuring An Introduction By Yorker Writer Hua Hsu, Author Of The Pulitzer Prizendash;winning Memoir Stay True A Penguin Classic Its Depression-era York, And Mr. Nut, An Oblivious American Everyman, Wants To Strike It Rich, Even If At The Moment Hes Unemployed, With No Job Prospects In Sight. Over The Course Of A Single Night, In A Narrative That Unfolds Hour By Hour, He Meets A Cast Of Strange Charactersmdash;disgruntled Workers At A Communist Cafeteria, Lecherous Old Men, Sexually Exploited Women, Pesky Authorsmdash;who Eventually Convince Him To Cast Off His Bourgeois Aspirations For Upward Mobility And Become A Radical Activist.