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2017-09-20
James Bennett
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2020-10-14 00:00:00
2020-06-25
2017-09-04
BKS
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86385
000060652916
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20170920123027.0
170825s2017 enk er 000 j eng d
9781408892404 (paperback)
9781408892411 (hardback)
(OCoLC)987430670
NWPL
eng
NWPL
rda
813.6
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Zhang, Jenny,
author.
Sour heart :
stories /
Jenny Zhang.
London :
Bloomsbury Circus, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing,
2017.
301 pages ;
22 cm.
We love you Crispina -- The empty the empty the empty -- Our mothers before them -- The evolution of my brother -- My days and nights of terror -- Why were they throwing bricks? -- You fell into the river and I saved you!
Centred on a community of immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in China and Taiwan for the constant struggle of life at the poverty line in 1990s New York City, the seven stories that make up Sour Heart examine the many ways that family and history can weigh us down, but also lift us up. From the young woman coming to terms with her grandmother's role in the Cultural Revolution, to the daughter struggling to understand where her family ends and she begins, to the girl discovering the power of her body to inspire and destroy, these stories illuminate the complex and messy inner lives of girls struggling to define themselves.
Coming of age
Fiction.
Chinese
Migrations
United States
Fiction.
Women immigrants
United States
Fiction.
Chinese American families
New York (State)
New York
Fiction.
Young women
New York (State)
New York
Fiction.
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New York (N.Y.)
Fiction.
Short stories.
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