Bauhinia (紫荊c)

Set at the edge of Ground Zero, the devastated 9/11 site in New York, a troubled romance unfolds as a young expatriate women from Hong Kong tries to salvage her rocky relationship with a yuppie mommy's boy. Her plight is further compounded by terrorist threats to her adopted city and by an unplanned pregnancy. In a gripping story, Evans Chan tackles themes of alienation, cultural conflicts and the politics of birth.