Hong Konged: One Modern American Family's Odyssey in the Gateway to China: One Modern American Family's (Mis)adventures in the Gateway to China - Hardcover

Hanstedt, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 144054073X ISBN 13: 9781440540738

Publisher: Adams Media Corporation, 2012

Synopsis

In this alternately hilarious and heartrending memoir, acclaimed writer and editor Paul Hanstedt recounts the true story of his family's recent sojourn to Hong Kong. Hanstedt and his wife and three children - aged 9, 6, and 3 - lived in Hong Kong for a year, a year beset by culture clash, childhood bullies, homesickness, family tragedy, and three kids who won't eat fish balls. Through the eyes of the earnest if sometimes clueless Hanstedt family, readers discover a world they've never known before - from dim sum, jade, and junks to crazy monkeys, lion dances, and mangosteens. But in the end, 'Hong Konged' is about place and family and what it is that makes us human - no matter who we are or where we live.

About this title

Product Description:

Unusual book

Review:

'Hong Konged is a laugh-out-loud recount of an American couple's year-long Asian tour - with three small children. This fast-moving adventure is always engaging and filled with profound observations of how children take on new challenges. A personal tale, by turns a bit scary and tender, it's told with a big heart by a father who has the ability to laugh at himself even when scared to death. It's a complex meditation on how a family works and the most enjoyable piece of writing I've read in years' --Tim Gautreaux, author of Welding with Children'

About this edition

• Publisher: Adams Media Corporation
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 144054073X
• ISBN 13: 9781440540738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304