Aliens in America - Softcover

Loh, Sandra Tsing

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1573226270 ISBN 13: 9781573226271

Publisher: Riverhead Books, 1997

Synopsis

From the best-selling author of Depth Takes a Holiday comes a comic monologue for sons and daughters everywhere, who feel that their parents must have been beamed to Earth from another planet. Original.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Contemporary satirist Sandra Tsing Loh spins a darkly comic, autobiographical tale of growing up middle class Chinese-German in Southern California. This witty monologue is for sons and daughters everywhere who feel that their parents must have been beamed to earth from another planet.

An L.A. Theatre Works performance featuring Sandra Tsing Loh.

About the Author:

Sandra Tsing Loh is a writer/performer whose critically acclaimed Off-Broadway solo shows include "Bad Sex with Bud Kemp" and "Aliens in America," which originally premiered at Second Stage Theatre in New York in summer 1996. The first of this plays three stories,My Father's Chinese Wives, won a 1995 Pushcart Prize and is featured in the 1999 Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Her books, all published by Riverhead Books (Penguin/Putnam), include the best selling Depth Takes a Holiday: Essays from Lesser Los Angeles, Aliens in America,and a novel,If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now, which was named by the Los Angeles Times as one of the 100 Best Books of 1997. Author's note: only the most outrageous elements of this play is true.

About this edition

• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1573226270
• ISBN 13: 9781573226271
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 94