CASEY AND HIS GAS SHOP

Casey is a young man on the road. As he passes through a small town in east Taiwan, he sees a bottled gas shop for sale, and decides to buy it. You can buy a business, but you can't buy in a community, and the locals still regard him as an outsider, until one day, an old lady simultaneously requests deliveries from all three gas shops in town. In the ensuing chaos, only the perceptive Casey deduces the truth: she is suffering from dementia. After helping contact her family, the townspeople finally accept Casey as one of their own, including the lady's daughter. CASEY AND HIS GAS SHOP is Annie Hao's funny and heartwarming debut, a feel-good novel of small-town mystery and eccentricity, of finding one's place and the power of community, the ultimate love letter to a profession that's slowly fading out of time.