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    Crossing

    Written by Andrew Xia Fukuda

    Narrated by Luke Daniels

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    A loner in his all-white high school, Chinese-born Xing (pronounced “Shing”) is a wallflower longing for acceptance. His isolation is intensified by his increasingly awkward and undeniable crush on his only friend, the beautiful and brilliant Naomi Lee.

    Xing’s quiet adolescent existence is rattled when a series of disappearances rock his high school and fear ripples through the blue collar community in which he lives.

    Amidst the chaos surrounding him, only Xing, alone on the sidelines of life, takes notice of some peculiar sightings around town. He begins to investigate with the hope that if he can help put an end to the disappearances, he will finally win the acceptance for which he has longed. However, as Xing draws closer to unveiling the identity of the abductor, he senses a noose of suspicion tightening around his own neck.

    While Xing races to solve the mystery and clear his name, Crossing hurtles readers towards a chilling climax.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 4, 2012
    ISBN9781469243054
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    Crossing
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    Andrew Xia Fukuda

    Born in Manhattan and raised in Hong Kong, Andrew Fukuda is half-Chinese, half-Japanese. He received a bachelor’s degree in history from Cornell University and went on to work in Manhattan’s Chinatown with immigrant teenagers for a number of years, an experience that led to the genesis of Crossing. He is a winner of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association’s Award for Literature and currently resides on Long Island, New York, with his wife and two sons.

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    • 4/5
      A quick suspenseful novel.
    • 3/5
       A distressing look at the lot of the outsider in a small community gripped by fear in the wake of a series of kidnappings / murders. Not entirely successful, but there's enough here to evoke a response (including the desire to scream at the protagonist to sort himself out and stop making himself an easy target).
    • 5/5
      There are some books that you stay up all night reading because you just have to know what happens. Then there are books that you stay up all night reading because you really don't want to turn off the lights. Crossing falls gracefully into both categories.The whole story, the story behind the disappearances, is told by Kris. We see his classmates, his one friend, the town, through his eyes. Kris kind of goes through the motions of his life, the ultimate observer. It isn't until he starts singing lessons before school that he gains some confidence and things really start happening both to and for him. If it weren't for the missing kids, this would be a very different story, one about an unpopular, unspectacular kid who, with a little adult attention and encouragement, finally comes out of his shell, makes friends, and is recognized by his peers. Well, almost. The disappearances are good for Kris. He's no longer bullied at school, and when the guy he's understudying goes missing, he gets the lead in the school musical. It's easy to see why Kris is the perfect suspect.The first couple of pages of the book make it seem as though Kris is just that, at the very least: a suspect. For most of the story, however, that's not how it looks like things should go. Other things in his life, his crush on Naomi, the new girl Jan, and his music lessons, are more important than the missing kids. The disappearances are almost peripheral to Kris's story; he's to busy being a freshman for the disappearances, which make his life a little bit more livable, to worry him. When the disappearances, and the rumors surrounding them, come crashing into Kris's life, they are really creepy. Don't turn the lights off creepy. Everyone is paranoid and thinks they are being watched; Kris is chased. They've all "seen" the person watching them; Kris sees no one. He manages to brush these things off, most of the time, but they come back in strange ways.But Jan, herself, is what creeped me out the most. She is new and an outsider, like Kris, and she eventually clings to him. Her desperation and hopelessness scared me. She is a truly haunting character. She's an important part of the story, in a nuts and bolts kind of way, but she's very much a side character. On one hand I wish there had been more of her in the book, especially in the aftermath part of it, but on the other hand, I don't think it would be the same story if she had been more present in it. The whole point, I think, is that Kris, Jan, and, to some extent, Naomi are kids no one notices. We only see what Kris sees, and even he doesn't really see Jan for a lot of the book.The ending wasn't really a surprise, but the story did throw me for a few loops getting there. The mystery still exists, even if you think you know who did the deed.Book source: Review copy from publisher.
    • 4/5
      Summary: Xing is a Chinese immigrant attending a mostly white high school in New York. His only friend is Naomi, the only other Chinese person at his school. His high school experience is dismal to say the least. If he is not being bullied, he is completely ignored. His home life is not much better. His father is dead and his mother works too much to parent him. But when kids at the high school start disappearing everyone is affected, especially Xing.My Thoughts: When I was choosing a book, I kept going back to this one. The description drew me in. It sounded like an interesting story. Once I started reading it I didn’t want to stop. It is a gloomy story. The main character, Xing, doesn’t have the best life, but the writer kept me interested right up to the end. He writes well, and tells a story ever better. He did a great job of depicting the lives of high school students, and more specifically the lives outcasts.But, I did NOT like the ending. There was NO resolution, things were just left hanging. I guess we were left to make up our own minds about Xing’s fate. But I didn’t want to. I wanted the author to wrap up the book, one way or the other. And I think he could have because the rest of the book was really really good. Maybe I am missing the point of the ending; I have read some reviews that praise the whole book.Someone once mentioned that it is better to struggle through a book and LOVE the ending, than to breeze through a book and hate the ending. I have to agree now that I have experienced both. I giving this 3.5 stars because it was only the last 15-20 pages that I really didn’t enjoy.
    • 5/5
      Crossing opens under an immediate pull of gloom, a mystery so thick with suspense it will keep you at the edge of your seat. Told completely through the perspective of Xing (Kris), a teenage outcast and immigrant boy nobody notices. Kris feels with each day that passes by, he fades a little more into the background. When he does get noticed it’s by bullies who spew their hatred racism at him, naïve mean kids who truly don’t understand that racial slurs hurt and riddle a person with insecurities. Xing looks in the mirror and wishes to be white, with blue eyes and blond hair. Instead of seeing how beautiful he truly is, he see’s ugly and thinks if only he were white life would be better. Xing’s isolation grew deep roots of insecurities that drew me to him, but also deep anger, that pulled me away from him. Highly relatable but also deeply complex to the point of troubling is how I would describe this character. Fukuda’s writing is so detailed and beautiful that he is able to hit the reader with true emotion, when Xing yearns for his homeland and describes a time in China so exquisite, a time when he felt free, when he lingers on the smells and sounds of the street and the laughter of his friends, the longing is so intense I wanted to be there as well. Little things like that helped me connect to Xing and face some truly conflicting emotions. I wanted to believe the premise of the novel that Xing was innocent, taking the fall because he was the outcast no one paid attention to. But so much circumstantial evidence piled on top of him that I was second guessing his innocence by the end of the story. I believe that was the goal of the author, to show you the longings of this character, to see his love for Naomi, to see his grief over his father, to feel his yearnings for China and his yearning to find a place in America. Also to see his anger at injustice, to feel his shame towards his parents and see how that hate grew slowly and churned inside him. We are left seeing Xing’s innocence but automatically want to question it.
    • 3/5
      Racism, bigotry and abuse are the foundation on which of this very powerful novel is built. Set in small-town Upstate New York where few families are of any ethnic persuasion other than caucasian, we follow Xing through the traumatic events of a slew of child abductions.Having been on the receiving end of bullies his entire life, Xing (called Chris so as to more fully immerse himself in American culture and not single his Asian heritage out) is immediately under suspicion when series of classmates go missing without a trace. Often referencing the Virginia Tech massacre the town’s inhabitants are a mixture of cautious and accusatory when these white boys go missing. Particularly given Xing’s inadvertent and circumstantial involvement in each of the boy’s lives.Fukuda has written Xing as a quite and shy boy, understated in everything he does. He’s fearful of any attention (positive or negative) being drawn to himself. With the exception of his best friend Naomi, another Asian student who has better assimilated herself into the tiny town, Xing has isolated himself. That is until he starts to open himself up to several adults he’s encountered (an inhabitant of his mother’s boarding house and a music teacher). Through their encouragement, he is finally making a life for himself, opening up and putting himself out there as a valuable contributor to society.The complexity of Xing’s characterization is what makes this story so powerful. Sure, there are heavy topics explored — racism, bigotry, stereotyping, child abuse — but the strength of the story lies with Xing and his reactions and interactions with the people and situations that surround him. The centerpiece of all the town’s attention and in many cases rage, he very quickly becomes the portrait of tragic evolution. Finally flourishing and coming into his own, he experiences the same events as the towns people just from a different perspective which ultimately brings the mystery to a much unexpected end.This, of course, made his story all that more tragic.Not wanting to spoil the story, its progression or the outcome I will say that the ending packed a punch. Not without some predictability, Fukuda created a mystery that kept me on my toes. I was regularly left wondering where the next steps would lead and found the ride between quite enjoyable. It is a very deep, rich and strong story with troubled characters and complex issues to explore.
    • 4/5
      Good use of authentic locations in and around Weston, including Birnbeck Island old ferry terminal, which we saw from Brean Down a couple of years ago. The author captures well life in a rather faded seaside town, especially for a detective moved sideways from Bristol's Major Incident Team and living on their own. Be worth reading more in the series.
    • 5/5
      There are elements in this first-in-a-series novel that have been common to a number of crime fiction novels recently: female detective, life made more difficult for her by male colleagues than it need be, appears to make a mistake, penalised by her superiors; misses out on promotion, relocated to a position now seen as a demotion, has to step straight up to the plate, with a very puzzling case.This novel has a well thought out and intriguing plot, with a central character who is at the same time likeable and has potential. 
    • 2/5
      GrimThis is a grim story of serial killers, stalkers, and a host of unpleasant people that is presented through far too much interior dialog. Detective Louise Blackwell does not register as real to me. I did not like the book and did not finish.I received a review copy of "The Crossing: Detective Louise Blackwell" by Matt Brolly from Thomas & Mercer through NetGalley.com.
    • 3/5
      The Crossing is a British crime drama which is not badly done, just not great. The story could be interesting but I was distracted by the inner voice of DI Louise Blackwell. She has so many problems, not the least her inability to effectively deal with her former partner. Here’s the deal, she was stabbed in the back by him and savaged by her superiors. Well you had to believe one or the other and why not the Alpha male. Bottom line the guy makes DCI and the female gets booted to the boonies, the outer environs. Now what would a righteous woman, who happens to be a wrongly accused police officer, do? In my story she subscribes to the position that is is pointless to get even, she needs to get ahead and she has to do it from the strongest feminine perspective. That was the issue - her voice and thoughts never rang true - It felt as if she was written by a man who wasn’t fully able to get into the mind of a this female. Brolly never gave her the uppercut she deserved to throw.Thank you NetGalley and Thomas & Mercer for a copy.