Sour Heart
Stories
by Jenny Zhang
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Short Stories and Fiction.
A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York Cityfor readers of Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, and Junot DiazA fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Short Stories and Fiction.
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Jia Tolentino
“Jenny Zhang?s astounding shortstory collection, Sour Heart, combines ingenious and tightly controlled technical artistry with an unfettered emotional directness that frequently moves, within single sentences, from overwhelming beauty to abject pain. The collection?s organising theme is familial love that warps a person beyond all recognition: specifically, a type of immigrant devotion with a power that is both creative and entropic, and which affects its recipients in idiosyncratic ways.”
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