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    • Author/Creator:Lee, Janice Y. K., author.
    • Title:The expatriates / Janice Y.K. Lee.
    • ISBN:9780525429470
      0525429476
    • Publication:New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2016]
    • Physical Description:332 pages ; 24 cm
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    • Summary:The "emotions, identities, and relationships of three very different American women living in same small expat community in Hong Kong ... As each woman struggles with her own demons, their lives collide in ways that have irreversible consequences for them all."--
      Three very different American women livie in the same small expat community in Hong Kong. Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, is adrift, undone by a terrible incident in her recent past. Hilary, a wealthy housewife, is haunted by her struggle to have a child, something she believes could save her foundering marriage. Meanwhile, Margaret, once a happily married mother of three, questions her maternal identity in the wake of a shattering loss. Their lives collide in ways that have irreversible consequences for them all.
    • Format:Book
    • Subjects:Americans--China--Hong Kong--Fiction.
      Noncitizens--Fiction.
      Married women--Fiction.
      Hong Kong (China)--Fiction.