The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong edition by Leland Cheuk Literature Fiction eBooks
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The Pongs are an American immigrant family that has seen it all. They helped build the transcontinental railroads of the Victorian Age. They were mistakenly interned with Japanese-Americans during World War II. They may even have co-invented the landmark video game that bears the family's last name. But despite all they've endured, each new generation's patriarch has had one thing in common a penchant for degeneracy. Sulliver Pong was supposed to be the exception. Married and living in Copenhagen, he was supposed to have escaped his toxic hometown of Bordirtoun; and most importantly, its mayor, his father Saul. When Saul visits unannounced, he begins to draw his son back into his corrupt world of city politics and redevelopment schemes. Yoked to his feelings of guilt for his abused mother and his lust for a now-married adolescent crush, book-smart but life-dumb Sulliver finds himself running for mayor against his father--a decision that will carry hilarious and unfortunate consequences for all involved. A laugh-out-loud black comedy about a dysfunctional family that has endured almost every major injustice in Asian-American history, but can't endure each other, Leland Cheuk's irreverent debut is perfect for existing fans of Jonathan Franzen or the Coen Brothers.
"Equal parts laugh-out-loud satire and dysfunctional family comedy, Leland Cheuk's The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong brims with Vonnegut-flavored humor and Delillo-esque commentary as it sends up Asian-American struggles and father-son rivalries. This is the hilarious and assured debut of a wise and wacky new talent." --Laurie Foos, author of The Blue Girl and Ex Utero
"As sneakily addictive as a game of Pong (which was named, we're told, after the narrator's dad), this zany zip-line of a novel takes the piss out of the Asian-American 'good immigrant' story. Full of charming antiheroes making comically bad choices, the story dazzles us with its absurdity, which makes its eventual wisdom--about lineage, ethnicity, and the meaning of family--all the more wonderfully surprising." --Michael Lowenthal, author of The Paternity Test and Charity Girl
The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong edition by Leland Cheuk Literature Fiction eBooks
Meet Sulliver Pong in this crazy rollicking ride of a novel. Not matter that he has escaped from southern California to Copenhagen, Sulliver Pong, fifth-generation Chinese-American, cannot flee his family, his history, or his own limitations. The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong is a smart, satirical take on immigration, lust, family loyalty, entrepreneurialism and politics. The novel moves back and forth in time, covering several generations of Pong patriarchs and their partners, with the focus on Sulliver, the present-day Pong, jailed and encouraged by his lawyer to write his opus. The place is Bordirtoun, a fictional California town on the border with Mexico, named and (mis)spelled by founder Millmore Pong, the first American Pong, who emigrated from China in 1861.Sulliver, initially safely in Copenhagen with his Danish wife, thought he’d left Bordirtoun for good, until his manipulative, charismatic father, Saul, shows up and pulls Sulliver back into the dysfunctional family and the exploitative political empire. Sulliver may have the best intentions but he’s no saint and faced with a series of choices he may make the wrong ones, even as he fervently wishes to do right. This novel is quick-paced and well-written, imbued with intelligence and humor. Leland Cheuk has a sharp eye for human foibles, bigotry, the immigrant experience and the vagaries of capitalism, taken to the absurd. Once you crack this book open, you won’t put down.
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I don't know much about Asian American families but I do know about hilarity and Cheuk is very funny. His lighthearted tale of a spineless man with a sensitive groin and his complex relation to the mainly male members of his family achieves solid lulz. I thought this was one of the better books that I've read about family dynamics and would include it along with Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections and Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club. Well worth the read.
I usully read books by written by women because, I don't know, it seems like every time I start a book written by a dude I find myself thinking Ugh! So Lame!
So then my friend Leland Cheuk wrote a book and of course I had to buy it but did I have to read it? Well in fact I felt I did have to read it. AND I REALLY REALLY LIKED IT! For real! Leland is a really funny dude and that totally comes across in the book. I was very entertained and sometimes downright enthralled by the characters and the story. BUY THIS BOOK! YOU WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED!
I enjoyed the journey and was pleasantly surprised by the ending. Loved the historical stories of the other Pongs and how interspersing them into Sulliver's story shows how everyone is shaped by their own family histories, but can still find their own paths in life.
Like nothing you've ever read. Like nothing you'll ever read again. I wish I'd bought the paperback, because the texture in this book is probably something to be witnessed firsthand, and Indon't mean that as a pun, I promise.
Hilarious! I picked this book up a day before a family vacation to Mexico, started reading it on the plane and could not put it down on the flight until my screaming toddler ripped it from my hands.The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong is a comedy of laughs from beginning 'til end. I often found myself laughing out loud. The book is undoubtedly well-written and light enough to read anywhere/anytime.
Bottom line...Awesome. I can't wait for the movie/TV show based on the book.
Leland Cheuk's The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong is a funny, insightful debut. My two favorite aspects were (1) the lively setting of Bourdirtown, where everything is named after Mayor Pong and the characters who populate it are reminiscent of the best recurring characters of Parks and Recreation's Pawnee, Indiana, and (2) the flashbacks that illuminate the lives of the main character's ancestors, which offer some of the most sensitive and insightful parts of the book. In easy-to-read prose, Cheuk offers a main character that goes beyond many of the anti-hero archetypes so common these days.
I love this book. Cheuk creates in Misadventures an enjoyable--and raucously funny--picaresque. Sulliver Pong, the protagonist of Misadventures, is the immigrant every man. He's a good man, but also a shirker, who has long been running from his life--mainly his overbearing parents. But these parents are not your stereotypical overachieving Asian parents. Instead, Saul is his very own, very American, creation--a businessman, turned Bordirtoun demagogue. Cheuk in telling Sulliver's story, also nimbly and ably explores the experiences of many generations of Pongs and the history of Chinese immigrants in America. It's in the combination of these threads that the novel finds its moral center and heart--we escape our past by first confronting and owning it.
This novel is many things--an immigrant novel, a novel of place, a satire of the American dream. It's dark and ambitious and funny as hell. Think All the Kings Men meets The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. But it's a fine novel in its own right and deserves a wide audience. Hat tip to the way of the American Pong.
Meet Sulliver Pong in this crazy rollicking ride of a novel. Not matter that he has escaped from southern California to Copenhagen, Sulliver Pong, fifth-generation Chinese-American, cannot flee his family, his history, or his own limitations. The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong is a smart, satirical take on immigration, lust, family loyalty, entrepreneurialism and politics. The novel moves back and forth in time, covering several generations of Pong patriarchs and their partners, with the focus on Sulliver, the present-day Pong, jailed and encouraged by his lawyer to write his opus. The place is Bordirtoun, a fictional California town on the border with Mexico, named and (mis)spelled by founder Millmore Pong, the first American Pong, who emigrated from China in 1861.
Sulliver, initially safely in Copenhagen with his Danish wife, thought he’d left Bordirtoun for good, until his manipulative, charismatic father, Saul, shows up and pulls Sulliver back into the dysfunctional family and the exploitative political empire. Sulliver may have the best intentions but he’s no saint and faced with a series of choices he may make the wrong ones, even as he fervently wishes to do right. This novel is quick-paced and well-written, imbued with intelligence and humor. Leland Cheuk has a sharp eye for human foibles, bigotry, the immigrant experience and the vagaries of capitalism, taken to the absurd. Once you crack this book open, you won’t put down.
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