This is a work of fiction. Names,
characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the
author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to
actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely
coincidental.
Copyright © 2009 by Ha Jin
All rights reserved. Published in the
United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.,
New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited,
Toronto.
Pantheon Books and colophon are registered
trademarks of Random House, Inc.
The following stories have been previously
published: “A Pension Plan” in Asia Literary Review;
“Children as Enemies” in flatmanCrooked; “In the
Crossfire” in Granta; “The Beauty” in Michigan
Quarterly Review; “The House Behind a Weeping Cherry” in
The New Yorker; “Temporary Love” in Shenandoah;
“Shame” in Weber: The Contemporary West; and “A
Composer and His Parakeets,” “Choice,” and “An English Professor”
in Zoetrope: All-Story. “A Composer and His Parakeets”
also appeared in The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008, edited
by Laura Furman (New York: Anchor Books, 2008); “The House Behind a
Weeping Cherry” also appeared in The PEN/O. Henry Prize
Stories 2009, edited by Laura Furman (New York: Anchor Books,
2009).
Library of Congress
Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jin, Ha, [date]
A good fall : stories / Ha Jin.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-307-37869-9
1. Chinese—United States—Fiction.
2. Flushing (New York,
N.Y.)—Fiction.
I. Title.
PS3560.I6G66 2009
813′.54—dc22 2009008638
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