Books
"An outstanding piece of literature."
-- The Richmond Times-Dispatch
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"A fascinating story, complex and with a haunting finish."
-- The Washington Post
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"A mystery story, a history lesson, a personal journey between hard covers: a great, American vintage."
-- Darin Strauss, author of Chang & Eng
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"A brilliant ... hybrid of history and memoir, biography and travelogue."
-- Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
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"Much wine writing is dull stuff, full of posturing and genealogy. Kliman delivers suicidal doctors, dashing Air Force pilots, and transgendered multimillionaires ..."
-- Epicurious.com
"Delightful."
-- Slate
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"Kick ass."
-- John T. Edge, author and director of the Southern Foodways Alliance
"Superlative ... a mysterious Chinese chef whose spicy Szechuan cuisine tends to make gourmands weak in the knees (and sweaty on the brow) -- but whose wandering ways tend to drive everybody crazy. ... Kliman writes about being utterly consumed with Chang's cooking and peripatetic tendencies both. ... Delicious."
-- The Washington Post
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"I don't think the world can have too much Chang."
-- David Remnick, The New Yorker