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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.

Because of Tillie Turkey's curiosity and love of free grain, she travels 3,000 miles from Massachusetts to the Arizona desert. How will she cope? Are chickens small turkeys? Where will she live? Just a few of the answers Tillie needs to resolve.

Tillie Turkey has made friends with Rancher Brown, and now wears a bright yellow vest and walks on a leash. Rancher Brown and Tillie attend outdoor events and give talks on the wonderful qualities of turkeys. In this adventure, Tillie becomes a hero by helping a little lost boy get back to his mother.

Xuan Juliana Wang's remarkable debut introduces us to the new and changing face of Chinese youth. From fuerdai (second-generation rich kids) to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster, her dazzling, formally inventive stories upend the immigrant narrative to reveal a new experience of belonging: of young people testing the limits of who they are, in a world as vast and varied as their ambitions. In stories of love, family, and friendship, here are the voices, faces, and stories of a new generation never before captured in fiction.