Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li combining brilliantly recollected memory with

combining brilliantly recollected memory with compelling wit and perfect prose

which reveals a woman's agonised consideration of her confusing sexual relationship with her husband

Her curiosity about her emerging sexuality

But while the Meditations were composed to provide personal consolation and encouragement

living out of a grocery storeroom

Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li combining brilliantly recollected memory withAn exuberant and wise multigenerational debut novel about the complicated lives and loves of people working in a local Chinese restaurant. The popular Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland has been serving devoted regulars for decades, but behind the staff's professional masks simmer tensions, heartaches and grudges from decades of gruelling service work.