Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press, (2015). SIGNED first edition - "In the early 1970s, Frank Chin, the outspoken Chinese American author of such plays as The Chickencoop Chinaman and The Year of the Dragon, wrote a full-length novel that was never published and presumably lost. Nearly four decades later, Calvin McMillin, a literary scholar specializing in Asian American literature, would discover Chin's original manuscripts and embark on an extensive restoration project. Meticulously reassembled from multiple extant drafts, [this] follows the further misadventures of Tam Lum, the original play's witty protagonist, who, haunted by the bitter memories of a failed marriage and the untimely death of a beloved family member, flees San Francisco's Chinatown for a life of self-imposed exile on the Hawaiian island of Maui." Includes a long informative introduction by Calvin McMillin, which ends with his comment that "Preceding the publication of Kingston's 'The Woman Warrior' by at least three years, Chin's lost novel, quite possibly could have changed the face of Asian American literature had it been published in the 1970s when originally planned. Written at the height of Frank Chins creative powers, this formerly lost novel ranks as the authors funniest, most powerful, and most poignant work to date." SIGNED on the title page by both Frank Chin and Calvin McMillin. In addition Chin dated his signature - but with a date 10 years earlier (5/22/06) than the actual date he signed it - he commented that the book was written so long ago that the current date was irrelevant. 265 pp. ISBN: 9780824838928.