Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li living out of a grocery

living out of a grocery storeroom

combining brilliantly recollected memory with compelling wit and perfect prose

New Orleans and Mexico City

When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat

who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift

Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li living out of a groceryAn exuberant and wise multigenerational debut novel about the complicated lives and loves of people working in a local Chinese restaurant. The popular Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland has been serving devoted regulars for decades, but behind the staff's professional masks simmer tensions, heartaches and grudges from decades of gruelling service work.