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The Quiet Hour · Calloway
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Number one Chinese restaurant
Lillian Li
2019 · Pushkin Press, Limited
Chinese restaurantsFamiliesFictionFiction, family lifeChinese americans, fiction
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The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland, is not only a beloved go-to setting for hunger pangs and celebrations; it is its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. When disaster strikes, this working family's controlled chaos is set loose, forcing each character to confront the conflicts that fast-paced restaurant life has kept at bay. Owner Jimmy Han hopes to leave his late father's homespun establishment for a fancier one. Jimmy…
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