{"product_id":"beauty-plus-pity-9781551524160","title":"Beauty Plus Pity","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\"Beauty plus pity--that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.\"--Vladimir Nabokov \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this tragicomic modern immigrant's tale, Malcolm Kwan is a slacker twentysomething Asian-Canadian living in Vancouver who is about to embark on a modelling career when his life is suddenly derailed by two near-simultaneous events: the death of his filmmaker father, and the betrayal of his fiancée who has left him. Soon he meets Hadley, the half-sister he never knew existed?the result of his father's extramarital affair?and as their tentative relationship grows, Malcolm is forced to confront his past relationships with women, including his own mother, an art teacher working through her grief as well as her resentment at her son befriending her husband's daughter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with a winsome yet plaintive eye, \u003ci\u003eBeauty Plus Pity\u003c\/i\u003e is about a young man who's forced to reckon with the past as he works through his lifelong ambivalence toward his hyphenated cultural identity, and between two parents holding intolerable secrets. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin Chong\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eBaroque-a-Nova\u003c\/i\u003e (Plume) and the memoir \u003ci\u003eNeil Young Nation\u003c\/i\u003e (Greystone Books).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arsenal Pulp Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/20\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781551524160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.40w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/18\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2011 pg. 27\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kevin Chong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45351298334901,"sku":"9781551524160","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_c3d68033-094c-4bbd-8918-9ed2fc0d8f36.jpg?v=1746540904","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/beauty-plus-pity-9781551524160","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}