Sour Heart

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  • New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Nominee (2018)
  • PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (2018)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (2017)
  • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize Nominee for Fiction and Poetry (2018)
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Sour Heart

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ISBN: 9781408892404
Authors: Jenny Zhang
Publisher: Bloomsbury Circus
Date of Publication: 2017-08-10
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Race, Asian Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.7
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Description

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. In this debut collection, she conjures the disturbing and often hilarious experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City. 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 and 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.
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