Have you ever wondered:
<ul>
<li>Why Asians love "Hello Kitty"?</li>
<li>What the tattooed Chinese characters really say?</li>
<li>How to achieve feng shui for optimum make-out sessions?</li>
<li>Where Asian cuties meet the white guys who love them?</li>
</ul>
Then you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll realize this book is better than a Broadway production of Cats when you read scenes that include:
<ul>
<li>twenty-something Lindsey Owyang mastering the intricacies of office voicemail and fax dialing</li>
<li>an authentic Chinese banquet where Number One Son shows off his language skills by speaking "Chinglish"</li>
<li>dating disasters with grandsons of Grandma's mahjong partners</li>
<li>the discovery that the real China looks nothing like the pavilion at Disney World</li>
<li>karaoke</li>
</ul>
And all the while Lindsey is falling in lust with the "white devil" in her politically correct office. But will Grandma's stinky Chinese ointments send him running? Or will Lindsey realize that the path to true love lies somewhere between the dim sum and the pepperoni pizza?

The Dim Sum of All Things

Literature & Fiction

Keltner, Kim Wong

United States

William Morrow Paperbacks

Want to learn a thing or two about a young Chinese-Americanwoman with a penchant for Hello Kitty toys, who could be found squeezing into jeans at Old Navy while being asked for detailed explanations of Yo-Yo Ma's success?
Then get ready for:
WHO Lindsey Owyang, raised on Spaghetti-O'sand Aaron Spelling productions
WHAT Her Secret Asian Man finally proposes!
WHERE Springtime in San Francisco and it's raining stone cold foxes
HOW Lindsey wants to make her peace with Chinatown &amp; country,but will a crotchety Chinese grandmother stand in her way?
WHY Because she never expected her hottie crush fromsixth grade to show up now ...
As Lindsey continues her quest for identity, family secrets, and true love, will she find double happiness, or will she be tempted by one last lion dance with a stranger? Ultimately, Lindsey realizes that Chinese girls really wanna have chow fun.

Buddha Baby

Dramas & Plays

Fourteen-year-old Candace Ong is wasting away in wonderland—Eggroll Wonderland, the restaurant where her under-Americanized family toils in San Francisco. She loves rock candy and rock music, jelly beans and jelly shoes—and hangs with her best friend Ruby, whose wild life she envies. Candace wants more than another stifling summer stuck in the kitchen. So when a new opportunity arises, she leaps at the chance—even though it means leaving home to experience a tantalizing, dangerous life far beyond the dim sum ho hum. But the waiting world may be a lot more than one brainiac Chinese Lolita can safely handle.

I Want Candy

An answer to Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, author Kim Wong Keltner’s Tiger Babies Strike Back takes the control-freak beast by the tail with a humorous and honest look at the issues facing women today—Chinese-American and otherwise.
Keltner, the author of the novels Buddha Baby and I Want Candy, mines her own past in an attempt to dispel the myth that all Chinese women are Tiger Mothers. Keltner strikes back at Chua’s argument through topics, including “East Meets West in the Board Room and the Bedroom,” and “I Was Raised by a Tiger Mom and All I Got Was this Lousy T-Shirt: A Rebuttal to Chua.”
Through personal anecdotes and tough-love advice, Keltner’s witty and forthright opinions evoke an Asian-American Sex and the City, while showing how our families shape our personal worlds.

Tiger Babies Strike Back: How I Was Raised by a Tiger Mom but Could Not Be Turned to the Dark Side

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

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Books by Keltner, Kim Wong

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The Dim Sum of All Things

Buddha Baby

I Want Candy

Tiger Babies Strike Back: How I Was Raised by a Tiger Mom but Could Not Be Turned to the Dark Side