RaveThe RumpusLeland Cheuk’s writing moves with quick-footed energy, darkly playful without being facile. Whether poking fun at Chinese horoscopes, celebrity reality TV families, \'raunchy, brain-dead, road-trip comedies,\' or Chinese weddings with their guest lists of several hundreds, Cheuk delivers the punches ... No Good Very Bad Asian upends expectations, proving more complex than the rigid, confining literary categories that might seek to define it. Outrageous, satirical, tragic, comic, and hopeful, it’s a sharp-eyed saga about slaying illusions—whether imposed by external forces or self-perpetuated—as well as an ode to the demanding, fickle, and exhilarating vocation of making people laugh.
