<p><b>A <i>TIMES </i>BOOK OF THE MONTH AND <i>STYLIST </i>BOOK OF THE WEEK</b><br><b>A <i>BAD FORM REVIEW </i>PAPERBACK BOOK OF THE MONTH</b><br><br>''Sharp, swiftly moving, darkly funny . . . [a] compassion filled delight'' <b><i>The Times</i></b><br><br>''[A] sharp, assured debut''<i><b>Daily Mail</b></i><br><br>''A sensitive, sharp-eyed, slyly funny novel of venturing back into the foreign country that is your past¿ and discovering that you can never really shake the places and people that shaped you''<b> Celeste Ng, #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts</b><br><br>''Delia Cai fully renders the uneasy marriage between past and present. <i>Central Places</i> is honest about the strangeness and revelation of returning home'' <b>Raven Leilani, New York Times bestselling author of <i>Luster</i></b><br><br>Audrey Zhou left Hickory Grove, the tiny central Illinois town where she grew up, as soon as high school ended, and she never looked back. She moved to New