American Knees is a novel written by Shawn Wong. The novel was first published in 1995 by Simon & Schuster, and later republished by the University of Washington Press in 2005. Conceived as a cultural response to Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club, Wong's book depicts the love life of an East Asian American man with three women.
The book chronicles the romantic chapters in the life of Raymond Ding, a Chinese-American university administrator who first marries and divorces a Chinese-American woman, dates and breaks up with a hapa (biracial) younger woman, and later gets involved with a Vietnamese-American co-worker haunted by memories of the war.
