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Sour Heart : Stories by Zhang, Jenny, author; Zhang, Jenny. We love you Crispina; Zhang, Jenny. Empty, the empty, the empty; Zhang, Jenny. Our mothers before them; Zhang, Jenny. Evolution of my brother; Zhang, Jenny. My days and nights of terror; Zhang, Jenny. Why were they throwing bricks?; Zhang, Jenny. You fell into the river and I saved you! is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Sour Heart : Stories about?
A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City—for readers of Zadie Smith and Helen Oyeyemi.Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction • Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction AwardNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Guardian • Esquire • New York • BuzzFeedA fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience in America. Her stories cut across generations and continents, moving from the fraught halls of a public school in Flushing, Queens, to the tumultuous streets of Shanghai, China, during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. In the absence of grown-ups, latchkey kids experiment on each other until one day the experiments turn violent; an overbearing mother abandons her artistic aspirations to come to America but relives her glory days through karaoke; and a shy loner struggles to master English so she can speak to God. Narrated by the daughters of
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Zhang, Jenny, author; Zhang, Jenny. We love you Crispina; Zhang, Jenny. Empty, the empty, the empty; Zhang, Jenny. Our mothers before them; Zhang, Jenny. Evolution of my brother; Zhang, Jenny. My days and nights of terror; Zhang, Jenny. Why were they throwing bricks?; Zhang, Jenny. You fell into the river and I saved you!
- Publisher
- New York: Lenny
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780399589393
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Short Stories, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.64 / 5 (805 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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