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May-lee Chai is an award-winning American author of Chinese and Anglo-Irish heritage. | May-lee Chai is an award-winning American author of Chinese and Anglo-Irish heritage. | ||
Her novels include ''My Lucky Face'' [http://www.may-leechai.com/my_lucky_face.htm], about a Chinese woman in Nanjing balancing work, family, and a tough new job assignment taking care of a foreign teacher ; Dragon Chica, about Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge starting over in Texas and Nebraska; and its sequel, Tiger Girl, which won the 2014 APALA Award for Best Young Novel from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association. | Her novels include ''My Lucky Face'' [http://www.may-leechai.com/my_lucky_face.htm], about a Chinese woman in Nanjing balancing work, family, and a tough new job assignment taking care of a foreign teacher ; ''Dragon Chica'' [http://www.amazon.com/Dragon-Chica-May-lee-Chai/dp/1934848484/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432062544&sr=1-1&keywords=dragon+chica], about Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge starting over in Texas and Nebraska; and its sequel, ''Tiger Girl,'' [http://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Girl-Gemma-May-lee-Chai/dp/1936846454/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1432062578&sr=1-1&keywords=tiger+girl] which won the 2014 APALA Award for Best Young Novel from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association. | ||
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May-lee Chai is an award-winning American author of Chinese and Anglo-Irish heritage.
Her novels include My Lucky Face [1], about a Chinese woman in Nanjing balancing work, family, and a tough new job assignment taking care of a foreign teacher ; Dragon Chica [2], about Cambodian survivors of the Khmer Rouge starting over in Texas and Nebraska; and its sequel, Tiger Girl, [3] which won the 2014 APALA Award for Best Young Novel from the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association.
Her nonfiction books include the family memoir, The Girl from Purple Mountain, which was co-written with her father, the political scientist Winberg Chai. The book, which is narrated in alternating chapters by May-lee and her father, details her grandmother’s decision to be buried alone after helping her family to escape to America after the Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War. The Girl from Purple Mountain was nominated for the National Book Award in nonfiction.
Chai’s other memoir, Hapa Girl, was a 2008 Kiriyama Prize Notable Book and received an Honorable Mention from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights. It explores violent reactions towards her mixed-race family in a small Midwestern town in the 1980s.
Chai also published a short story and essay collection, Glamorous Asians; translated the 1934 autobiography of Chinese author, Ba Jin; and and co-authored a book about changes in contemporary Chinese society, China A to Z.