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Acclaimed writer Tash Aw's new novel is about the unlikely romance between two boys over the course of one summer. Jay, the scion of an affluent family, is drawn to Chuan, the son of his family farm's manager, when he visits the property bequeathed to them after the death of his grandfather. As the two boys get to know each other, rifts b...