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Home remedies stories

✍ Scribed by Xuan Juliana Wang


Publisher
Crown/Archetype
Year
2019
Tongue
en-US
Weight
131 KB
Edition
First edition
Category
Fiction
City
London New York Hogarth [2019] Β© 2019
ISBN
1984822764

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


"These dazzling stories interrogate the fractures, collisions and glorious new alloys of what it means to be a Chinese millennial." --Adam Johnson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Orphan Master's Son

**Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2019 by Nylon, Electric Literature, The Millions, and LitHub

  • An Elle Best Book of Spring**

In dexterous, electric prose, the twelve stories in Xuan Juliana Wang's first collection reveal the new face of a generation of Chinese youth.

Her characters stand at the threshold of bold and uncertain futures, navigating between their heritage and the chaos of contemporary life. In a crowded apartment on Mott Street, an immigrant family raises its first real Americans. At the Beijing Olympics, a pair of synchronized divers stands poised at the edge of success and self-discovery. And in New York, a father creates an algorithm to troubleshoot the problem of raising a...

✦ Subjects


Chinese Americans -- Fiction


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