Freckled Rice (1983)

Stephen C Nings Freckled Rice also has a roving teenager at its center in this case a 13yearold ChineseAmerican boy Joe J P Wing and his parents are scheduled to move from Bostons Chinatown to New Hampshire where his father plans to open a Polynesian restaurant in the meantime Joe wanders off to join his older brother whose Americanized manner has brought about a major rift with his more traditional parents Freckled Rice with a title that means to suggest the conflict of these two cultures is in both Cantonese and English and tells its story in a simple and credible manner NY Times