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This Is A Bust – Book Party With Author Ed Lin

Organizer: A/P/A Institute at NYU
Venue: NYU Kimmel Center, Room 914
Address:
60 Washington Square South
New York, 10003
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Add to Calendar 01/22/2008 06:30 PM 01/22/2008 08:30 PM America/New_York This Is A Bust – Book Party With Author Ed Lin More detail: https://apa.nyu.edu/event/this-is-a-bust-book-party-with-author-ed-lin/ NYU Kimmel Center, Room 914, New York, 10003

Join us for a special reading and author reception for This Is a Bust, the second novel by award-winning author Ed Lin. Lin turns the conventions of hard-boiled pulp stories on their head by exploring the unexotic and very real complexities of New York City’s Chinatown, circa 1976, through the eyes of a Chinese American cop. A Vietnam vet and an alcoholic, Robert Chow’s troubles are compounded by the fact that he’s basically community-relations window-dressing for the NYPD: he’s the only Chinese American on the Chinatown beat, and the only police officer who can speak Cantonese, but he’s never assigned anything more challenging than appearances at store openings or community events. Chow is willing to stuff down his feelings and hang tight for a promotion to the detective track, despite the community unrest that begins to roil around him. But when his superiors remain indifferent to an old Chinese woman’s death, he is forced to take matters into his own hands. This Is a Bust is at once a murder mystery, a noir homage and a devastating, uniquely nuanced portrait of a neighborhood in flux, stuck between old rivalries and youthful idealism.