The Bridegroom: Stories

This collection offers comical and deeply moving tales from contemporary China, blending warmth and humanity with surprising, disturbing, and delightful insights. One story follows a factory's head of security, whose world is upended when his adopted daughter marries a handsome worker, only for his new son-in-law to be arrested for homosexuality. Another tale hilariously depicts workers at an American-style fast food franchise learning the ropes of marketing and customer service.