Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book

A fifth-generation Californian feels alien to both his Chinese heritage and the American culture that stereotypes him and others of his race . ``The long-awaited novel by the author of China Men and The Woman Warrior is outrageously clever, surrealistically imaginative, mordantly witty and funny--in spots. It is also densely overwritten and tedious,'' argued PW . (June)