Louie, David Wong. The Barbarians Are Coming: A Novel

Want to laugh out loud? Read this novel about a second generation Chinese man whose parents run a laundry (what else?). They want him to marry the "paper bride" sight unseen whose picture they keep throwing in his face. Instead of the medical school his parents want him to attend, he goes to the Culinary Institute of America. "You call that cooking, his mother shouts about his French cuisine. Where's the oyster sauce in that dish?" He goes to work in a private club in Connecticut where he keeps getting seduced by Jewish matrons who want him to cook -what else - Chinese food.

Charlotte Thompson, July 28, 2000.