Book description
Eighteen-year-old Johnny Wong's dead-end life consists of delivering Chinese food and holding his chaotic family together in Toronto. When his sweet but treacherous Auntie, the mahjong queen, calls in their family debt, he fears the family will lose the Red Pagoda restaurant and break apart.
Invoking the spirit of Bruce…
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1 author picked Johnny Delivers as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Johnny Delivers roundhouse-kicks the Johnnyverse up a notch. You don’t have to have read Wayne Ng's previous book Letters From Johnny to appreciate it, but you’ll want to. Same dysfunctional family life in Toronto’s Chinese community in the 70s, new levels of trouble, with Bruce Lee tagging in for Dave Keon as Johnny’s fantasy ally. As always, Wayne has a deep, sympathetic insight into unsettled lives.
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