Will Windrider

take to the skies?

Moon shadow is eight years old when he sails from China to join his father, Windrider, in America. Windrider lives in San Francisco and makes his living doing laundry. Father and son have never met.

But MoonShadow grows to love and respect his father and to believe in his wonderful dream. And Windrider, with MoonShadow's help is willing to endure the mockery of the other Chinese, the poverty, the separation from his wife and country'even the great earthquake'to make his dream come true

"A fine, sensitive novel . . . that conveys the Chinese American's cultural heritage." -BL

"A fine, sensitive novel written with grace in a way that conveys the Chinese American's cultural heritage." -Booklist

"A triumph." -The New York Times