"Beauty plus pity--that is the closest we can get to a definition of art."--Vladimir Nabokov In this tragicomic modern immigrant's tale, Malcolm Kwan is a slacker twentysomething Asian-Canadian living in Vancouver who is about to embark on a modelling career when his life is suddenly derailed by two near-simultaneous events: the death of his filmmaker father, and the betrayal of his fianc e who has left him. Soon he meets Hadley, the half-sister...