The Beginning of the East

"[Max Yeh] is a writer on the rampage, but his appetite is for history, for political meaning, for ethical life ... He imagines America back to Columbus and forward again, mapping his own brain, and possibly ours..." --E.L. Doctorow

Made available again by Kaya Press for the first time in decades, The Beginning of the East is an audacious, high-wire grappling with the world-making powers of the literary imagination as filtered through the experiences of an American scholar of Chinese descent...