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A New York Times Notable Book Among the Best Books of the Entire Year: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, Slate In A Free Of Charge Life, Ha Jin uses the Wu family — dad Nan, mom Pingping, and boy Taotao — because they cut their connections with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square and start a new life in america. As Nan assumes numerous menial jobs, ultimately working a cafe with Pingping, he struggles to adjust to the American life-style and to put up his family together, even while he pines for a lady he lost and loved in his childhood. Ha Jinis enormous skills have been in full-force as he wonderfully brings alive the achievements and challenges of the modern immigrant experience.