A01=Alvin Lu
American identity
Asian American literature
asian-americans
Author_Alvin Lu
bibliographic investigation
California
Category=FB
chinese
Chinese Americans
Chinese immigrant
Chinese literary world
Chinese perspective
crime
displacement
documents
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
experimental fiction
FC2
femme fatale
fiction
Fiction Collection 2
Fiction Collective Two
immigrant narratives
immigrants
immigration
location
love
love triangle
memory
metafiction
murder
mystery
nested narratives
noir
novel
road trip
road trips
sex
taiwan
Taiwanese Americans
translation
underrepresented cultures
Product details
- ISBN 9781573662123
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jul 2025
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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To solve a love-triangle murder, a Taiwanese novelist takes a California road trip with her friend’s son into the heart of the ÉmigrÉ Chinese literary world, where rumors swirl, money talks, and memoirs, novels, and translations compose the source material for a twenty-first-century Rashomon. Cycling through nested literary forms and genres, and fiction and reality, Daydreamers unravels a mystery set against the greater mystery of American identity, by means of the stories immigrants make of their pasts, presents, and desired futures in a protean new world.
Alvin Lu is a native San Franciscan and author of a previous novel, The Hell Screens.
