Mr. Ding's Chicken Feet On a Slow Boat from Shanghai to Texas

After accepting a job teaching English on a small engineering vessel traveling from Shanghai to Texas, Gillian Kendall embarks on a strange journey with no ports of call but exotic emotional landscapes. She is the only female aboard, surrounded by Chinese men. The cosmopolitan graduate student suddenly has to adjust to an alien world, thick with cigarette smoke, unusual sea creatures, and male sexuality. Kendall invites readers to travel with her across cultural divides as deep and mysterious as the Pacific while she explores her own culture, orientation, and heart.Kendall, Gillian is the author of 'Mr. Ding's Chicken Feet On a Slow Boat from Shanghai to Texas', published 2006 under ISBN 9780299219444 and ISBN 0299219445.