Join us for Ed Lin's launch of his book "The Dead Can't Make a Living" at Think!Chinatown. RSVP without a book here!

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Ed Lin's big-hearted, eye-opening fifth installment in the fan-favorite Taipei Night Market series.

Jing-nan, the owner of the most popular food stand in Taipei's world-famous Shilin night market, is hauling trash after a successful evening of hawking Taiwanese delicacies to tourists when he finds a corpse propped up against the dumpsters. The dead man turns out to be Juan Ramos, a Philippine national who came to Taiwan for a job at a massive ZHD food processing plant. Jing-nan is haunted by Ramos's story, and by the heartbreak of his family, who arrive in Taipei looking for answers. ZHD has a history of safety violations, and activists have a hunch Ramos's death might be part of a cover-up. Meanwhile, Jing-nan's gangster uncle, Big Eye, has his own mysterious, probably illegal, reasons for being concerned about what's going on in ZHD. He pressures Jing-nan into a daring and risky mission: going undercover as a migrant laborer to get a job at the food processing plant and report back about the conditions inside. Jing-nan hopes to find out the truth for the Ramos family, and to save other immigrant lives-but first he has to survive the spy operation. The Dead Can't Make a Living is at once a rollicking crime novel and a scorchingly timely examination of our global dependence on undocumented immigrants and the inhumane labor conditions that underpin modern conveniences.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ed Lin, a native New Yorker of Taiwanese and Chinese descent, is the first author to win three Asian American Literary Awards. His new book, The Dead Can't Make a Living, is the latest in the Taipei Night Market mystery series published by Soho Crime. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, actress Cindy Cheung, and son.

Can't make the event? You can still pre-order a signed copy here!