Beauty Plus Pity

"Beauty plus pitythat is the closest we can get to a definition of art." Vladimir Nabokov In this tragicomic, modern immigrant's tale, Malcolm Kwan is a twentysomething Asian American embarking on a modeling career whose life is derailed when his father dies and his fiancée leaves him. When he meets the half-sister he never knew existedthe result of his father's extramarital affairhe must work through his lifelong ambivalence as one trapped between two cultures and between two parents holding in