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Things to Make and Break by Tan, May-Lan, author is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Things to Make and Break about?

"In these eleven stories, Tan explores the idea that every relationship between two people is actually a relationship between three people: each relationship encompasses and relies upon an interstitial presence--another person, a former self, a future lover. Within this loose thematic constraint, a series of related worlds unspool. Teenagers in a band betray each other. A woman gets so obsessed with photos of her boyfriend's ex that she eventually contrives a way to meet her. A woman has a relationship with her sister's husband's brother that darkly, secretly parallels her sister's happy marriage. Each character is a mirror, double or proxy of someone else, hinting at the possibility that we seek out the same person in different bodies and churn through cycles of self-invention/-annihilation." --

Who reads Things to Make and Break?

Author

Tan, May-Lan, author

Publisher

Hodder & Stoughton

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781909585010

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.25 / 5 (141 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14