Soy Sauce for Beginners : A Novel Condition:Very Good Under mounting pressure from the

Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies

intellectuals

"--San Francisco Chronicle"The narrow boundaries of our knowledge have expanded radically with the publication of Nothing to Envy

The novel begins in 1850 with Adam Ewing

character sketches

Soy Sauce for Beginners : A Novel Condition:Very Good Under mounting pressure from theGretchen Lin, adrift at the age of thirty, leaves her floundering marriage in San Francisco to move back to her childhood home in Singapore and immediately finds herself face to face with the twin headaches shes avoided her entire adult life: her mothers drinking problem and the machinations of her fathers artisanal soy sauce business. Surrounded by family, Gretchen struggles with the tension between personal ambition and filial duty, but still finds