Pangs of Love:

New York: Plume, 1992. First paperback edition. Light brown octavo, 225 pages; 21 cm. Extremely faint rubbing to spine head and foot, else Near Fine(+). Paperback. ISBN: 0452268885

Out of Print. Winner of The Los Angeles Times 1991 Book Prize For First Fiction. Asian Americans -- Fiction, Short Stories. Cultures as well as generations clash in the funny and heartbreaking short stories that mark David Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction and the Ploughshares Award, Pangs of Love explores the bizarre contradictions inherent in assimilation. Contents: Birthday -- Displacement -- Bottles of Beaujolais -- Social science -- Pangs of love -- Love on the rocks -- The movers -- One man's hysteria, real and imagined, in the twentieth century -- Warming trends -- Disturbing the universe -- Inheritance.