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The author wishes to thank the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation for their support, Him Mark Lai for his translations of Angel Island Poetry, Edmund Ow for his Angel Island research, Lane Publishing Company for permission to quote from the Sunset Western Garden Book, and Kay Boyle for permission to quote from her poem “Branded for Slaughter.”

Various portions of this novel were first published in Aiiieeeee! An Anthology of Asian American Writers, Counterpoint, and Yardbird Reader, vols. 3 and 5.

PUBLISHERS NOTE

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 1979 by Shawn Wong.

Reprinted by arrangement with Lowenstein-Yost Associates, Inc.

Introduction copyright © 2008 by Shawn Wong

First University of Washington Press edition published in 2008

Printed in the United States of America

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Wong, Shawn, 1949–

Homebase : a novel / Shawn Wong.

— 1st University of Washington Press ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-295-98816-0

(pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Chinese Americans—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3573.0583H66 2008

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