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La riscoperta delle proprie radici si accompagna a una serie inevitabile di nuove sfide, spesso estremamente pericolose… Dopo il successo del romanzo "Il cinese" (2018), Andrea Cotti torna a narrare le avventure del suo personaggio più amato, il vicequestore italo-cinese Luca Wu. Tormentato dai problemi coniugali con Anna – complici, se non altro, i ripetuti tradimenti di lui – l’investigatore trova l’occasione per allontanarsi momentaneamente da Roma e dall’amato figlio Giacomo.

Tai Go and his family have crossed an ocean wider than a thousand rivers, joining countless other Chinese immigrants in search of a better life in the United States. Instead, they’re met with hostility and racism. Empowered by the Chinese Exclusion Act, the government detains the immigrants on Angel Island in the San Francisco Bay while evaluating their claims.

Malcolm is the youngest child of Hmong refugees, and he was born over a decade after his youngest sibling, giving him a unique perspective on his complicated immigrant family. In the first part of the story, we meet Malcolm as an elementary school kid through the eyes of the adults in his life—his parents and siblings but also the white teachers at his Minnesota schools. As middle school begins, we encounter Malcolm in his own words, and suddenly we see that this "quiet, slow Hmong boy" is anything but.