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Indlæser... Sour Heart (2017)af Jenny Zhang
   Books Read in 2018 (1,154) Mitski! (17) Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog.  Kiramke | Dec 15, 2023 |   The girls are mostly on the cusp of puberty and are coming to terms with their sexual awakening as well as their various family dramas. The living conditions that they undergo seem horrendous; a reminder that New York a few decades ago was an extremely unsalubrious place. As a middle-aged white male, I'm obviously not the target demographic for this book, however I enjoyed all of these stories. (  ) gjky | Apr 9, 2023 | I normally review things because I'm worried I won't remember them but I can't imagine forgetting a collection like this (  ) ninagl | Jan 7, 2023 | ) nancyjean19 | Jun 3, 2020 | I might have preferred a more smoothed out text. On the other hand, we get a lot of that from writers trying to portray Asian-American families--a lot of polishing and smoothing out of complex, knotty truths--ugly truths, may of them. Whether you read her as on the sloppy side or purposely disinterested in orderliness, Zhang pulls no punches. The defining excerpt comes at the end, describing the conundrum of the American child of a strong immigrant family: "How did we get so lucky? they'd say, clearing away the frantic voices of who I thought I was supposed to be, and though I knew it wouldn't last forever, I stayed between them until I remembered who I was again and no longer felt lonely." deeEhmm | Apr 3, 2019 | ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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HTML: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, Helen Oyeyemi, and Junot Díaz 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 Award NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker NPR O: The Oprah Magazine The Guardian Esquire New York • BuzzFeed A 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 Chinese immigrants who fled imperiled lives as artists back home only to struggle to stay afloat—dumpster diving for food and scamming Atlantic City casino buses to make a buck—these seven stories showcase Zhang's compassion, moral courage, and a perverse sense of humor reminiscent of Portnoy's Complaint. A darkly funny and intimate rendering of girlhood, Sour Heart examines what it means to belong to a family, to find your home, leave it, reject it, and return again. Praise for Sour Heart "[Jenny Zhang's] coming-of-age tales are coarse and funny, sweet and sour, told in language that's rough-hewn yet pulsating with energy."—USA Today "One of the knockout fiction debuts of the year."—New York "Compelling writing about what it means to be a teenager . . . It's brilliant, it's dark, but it's also humorous and filled with love."—Isaac Fitzgerald, Today "[A] combustible collection . . . in a class of its own."—Booklist (starred review) "Gorgeous and grotesque . . . [a] tremendous debut."—Slate . No library descriptions found. |
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But actually, what a journey. By the end I think, this is actually beautifully honest and uncomfortable and, dare I say it, sweet. While the stories could mostly all be of one person, they are of one family in a fragmented and cohesive way. And the truth of all the anger and sadness and discomfort and searching make the moments of family and identity that much stronger. Of course, I also like sour fruit. (