Done with reading Ha Jin. As I kept reading I couldnt help drawing similarities between Chinese immigrants and Mongolians who struggle to settle in the U.S. The author demonstrates amazing knowledge of details and peculiarities of everyday life that the immigrants face in the new land. Also, because it's a collection of short stories each featuring diverse lives of different couples, individuals, and families, the book is easily read and very entertaining. There are all types of immigrants' lives; a graduate student who is struggling with his survival in New York, lonely composer who has to sustain his living through paid tutoring, a caregiver without any perspective for pension because of lack of English, a professor of English who is worried that his ethnic background might affect his tenure, a visiting scholar who turns illegal because his salary back home cannot sustain his wife's health cost and etc.
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