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Champion of the Award for Best First Novel by an American AuthorSet from the Taiwanese criminal underworld, The Foreigner is Francie Linis audacious debut novel. A noirish story about family, fraternity, mind, and the interested beach between a guy's tradition and his greatest self Emerson Chang is just a mild-mannered bachelor to the edge of forty, a fiscal expert in a perfectly pressed suit, a young child of Taiwanese immigrants who does not speak a word-of Chinese, and, properly, a virgin. His main family is his mother, whose delicate manipulations have held him shut--all-in the name of protecting an unknown concept of family and culture.But when his mother suddenly dies, Emerson sets out for Taipei to spread her ashes, and to share a shocking inheritance to his younger brother, Small G. Today enmeshed within the Taiwanese criminal underworld, Small G appears to be operating some really questionable company out-of his dad's karaoke club, and he covers a key--a crime that's not just cut him from his family, but might have destroyed his mind.