This was read-in-a-go material. Chinese-American writing has almost always never disappointed me, it’s all been an improvement on Amy Tan :)
Typical American was extremely well-written – The Namesake, which I just read, isn’t even a patch on it. TA is far superior in terms of style, content, specificity, characters, and what have you. And just a lot more interesting as a story. And it is so poignantly, profoundly humourous. I mean Amit Chaudhuri can wax lyrical and Jhumpa Lahiri can wax lucid, but their writing is just not grown up enough to match this.