02537cam a2200421 i 4500 1117575595 TxAuBib 20240116120000.0 231227s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780063257856 hardback 0063257858 hardback (OCoLC)1416353249 TxAuBib rda Lescure, Abue Rey,. River East, river West : a novel / Aube Rey Lescure. First edition. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] 342 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Shanghai, 2007: Fourteen-year-old Alva has always longed for more. Raised by her American expat mother, she's never known her Chinese father, and is certain a better life awaits them in America. But when her mother announces her engagement to their wealthy Chinese landlord, Lu Fang, Alva's hopes are dashed, and so she plots for the next best thing: the American School in Shanghai. Upon admission, though, Alva is surprised to discover an institution run by an exclusive community of expats and the ever-wilder thrills of a city where foreigners can ostensibly act as they please. 1985: In the seaside city of Qingdao, Lu Fang is a young, married man and a lowly clerk in a shipping yard. Though he once dreamed of a bright future, he is one of many casualties in his country's harsh political reforms. So when China opens its doors to the first wave of foreigners in decades, Lu Fang's world is split wide open after he meets an American woman who makes him confront difficult questions about his current status in life, and how much will ever be enough. 20240116. Racially mixed teenagers Fiction. Teenage girls Fiction. Americans China Fiction. Racially mixed families Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Adultery Fiction. Shanghai (China) Fiction. China Social life and customs 20th century Fiction. China Social life and customs 21st century Fiction. China History Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 Fiction. Historical fiction. lcgft Domestic fiction. fast Bildungsromans. lcgft