β Scribed by Jenny Zhang
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A sly, intimate debut collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York Cityβfor readers of Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, and Junot DΓaz
A stunning exploration of race, class, and identity, Sour Heart establishes Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience in America. Her stories cut across generations and continents, moving from the fraught halls of a public school in Flushing, Queens, to the riotous streets of Shanghai, China, during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. In the absence of grown-ups, latchkey kids experiment on each other until one day the experiments turn violent; an overbearing mother abandons her artistic aspirations to come to America but relives her glory days through karaoke; and a shy loner struggles to master English so she can speak to God.
Narrated by the daughters of Chinese immigrants who fled imperiled lives as...
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
[Siren Classic ManLove: Erotic Alternative Paranormal Romance, M/M, vampires, HEA] Marc Duggon was on a mission. He knew that Lowell Erickson was up to no good and he was determined to prove it. It was the only way he could keep his friends safe. But Marc has no idea that breaking into the man's lav
_The Laying on of Hands_ , the painfully observant account of a memorial service for a masseur to the famous. _The Clothes They Stood Up In_ , the comic tale of an elderly couple's trials after their flat is stripped completely bare. _Father! Father! Burning Bright_ , the savage satire on the family
After taking her mother's name, Four Souls, for strength, the strange, compelling Fleur Pillager walks from her Ojibwe reservation to the cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul. She seeks restitution from and revenge on the lumber baron who has stripped her reservation. But revenge is never simple, an
With the insight, humor, and compassion we have come to expect from her, Maeve Binchy tells a story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new Ireland. Dr. Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job of establishin
Clara Casey has more than enough onl her plate. Her daughters Adi and Linda were no porblem during th usually turbulent teens. Now Adi is always fighting for or against something: the environment or the the whale or battery farming; while Linds lurches from unsatisfacoty relationshiop to the next. A
### Amazon.com Review **Book Description** With the insight, humor, and compassion we have come to expect from her, Maeve Binchy tells a story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new Ireland. Dr. Clara Casey has bee