Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City

An incandescent, exquisitely written memoir about family, food, girlhood, resistance, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore.

In the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wo…

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