A Feather on the Breath of God

✍ Scribed by Nunez, Sigrid

• Book ID: 109499733
• Publisher: Picador
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 132 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781429944946

✦ Synopsis

A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.

Sigrid Nunez's A Feather on the Breath of God is a story about displacement and loss, and about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love.