Crossings

Leonard Chang

BLACK HERON Press, Aug 20, 2009 - Fiction - 315 pages

[i]Crossings[/i] takes an unflinching look at the lives of Korean immigrants, legal and illegal, in the San Francisco Bay Area. This novel centres on Sam, a widower, who finds himself in debt to a local gangster and Unha, an illegal immigrant working at a night-club. Intertwined with their lives are the lives of other characters-family members, other immigrants, gangsters. Together they form a portrait of a community struggling to better itself. When Unha rebels against the stringent demands placed on her, she is kidnapped and trafficked into prostitution and Sam is determined to save her. An ensemble novel, this is a mosaic of stories about the American dream.

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User Review  - Patrick O'Neil - Goodreads

Leonard Chang's Crossings has a simple beginning. A premise that has potential, although nothing out of the ordinary, nothing to warn you of things to come. There's characters you care about, there's ...

About the author

Leonard Chang was born in New York City and studied philosophy at Dartmouth College and Harvard University. He received his MFA from the University of California at Irvine and is the author of five previous novels. His books have been translated into Japanese, French and Korean, and are taught at universities around the world. He has received critical recognition and was a finalist for the Edgar Award.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Crossings
• Author: Leonard Chang
• Publisher: BLACK HERON Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0930773926, 9780930773922
• Length: 315 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Crime; Fiction / General; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense