Sour heart
stories
Zhang, Jenny
creator
author.
text
short story
Short stories.
Short stories.
Short stories-Adult fiction-Print
enk
London
Bloomsbury Circus, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing
2017
monographic
eng
301 pages ; 22 cm.
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.
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!
adult
Jenny Zhang.
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
New York (N.Y.)
Fiction
813.6
9781408892404 (paperback)
9781408892411 (hardback)
NWPL
170825
20170920123027.0
000060652916
eng