01052cam a2200277 4500 116217840 TxAuBib 19991001120000.0 840619s1984||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 84014258 /AC 9780395365632 0395365635 DLC DLC ICrlF TxAuBib Ruby, Lois. This old man : Lao jen / Lois Ruby. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1984. 195 p. ; 22 cm. School Library Journal. Book Links (A.L.A.) Bulletin (Center for Children's books.) A sixteen-year-old living in a group home in San Francisco examines her relationship with the two most important men in her life, one, her mother's pimp, the other, an elderly Chinese gentleman lying ill in a hospital. 7.0 Follett Library Resources. Young Adult. Chinese Americans Fiction. San Francisco (Calif) Fiction.