Sour Heart: Stories

✍ Scribed by Zhang, Jenny

• Book ID: 109868274
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 571 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780399589386

✦ Synopsis

A sly, intimate debut collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City—for readers of Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, and Junot Díaz
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...