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Self-Portrait with Ghost

✍ Scribed by Meng Jin

Book ID
112051069
Publisher
HarperCollins
Year
2022
Tongue
en-US
Weight
646 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780063160736

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✦ Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of Little Gods, whose "gift merges science, politics and art: the kind of audacity our world needs now" (Gina Apostol), comes an immersive and electrifying story collection that explores self-construction, female resilience, and migrations both literal and transformative.
Meng Jin's critically acclaimed debut novel, Little Gods, was praised as "spectacular and emotionally polyphonic (Omar El-Akkad, BookPage), "powerful" (Washington Post), and "meticulously observed, daringly imagined" (Claire Messud). Now Jin turns her considerable talents to short fiction, in ten thematically linked stories.

Written during the turbulent years of the Trump administration and the first year of the pandemic, these stories explore intimacy and isolation, coming-of-age and coming to terms with the repercussions of past mistakes, fraying relationships and surprising moments of connection. Moving between San Francisco and China, and from unsparing...

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