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Novels from Ann Patchett and James McBride, a biography of the Chinese American movie star Anna May Wong and a handful of edgy thrillers including one about a scuba driver swallowed by a whale.
Anna May Wong is "having a moment," says Yunte Huang, the latest and most politically astute biographer of the only Asian American actress who played leading…