The Sorrows of Others

✍ Scribed by Ada Zhang

• Book ID: 112026095
• Publisher: A Public Space
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 616 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781736370971

✦ Synopsis

Set in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution,The Sorrows of Others is a dazzling collection about people confronted with being outsiders--as immigrants, as revolutionaries, and even, often, within their own families.
In New York City, an art student finds an unexpected subject when she moves in with a grandmother from Xi'an, and boundaries are put into question. When a newlywed couple moves to Arizona, adapting to unfamiliar customs keeps their marriage from falling apart. A woman grapples with what it means to care for another, and the limits of that care, when her dying husband returns from Beijing years after abandoning her. And during a rainy summer in Texas, a visitor exposes the unspoken but unburiable history that binds two families together. Ada Zhang writes with startling honesty and love about lives young and old, in a stunning debut that explores what happens when we leave home and what happens when we stay, and the...