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(0)Jenny Zhang
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains,...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 book club bag ; in container
Language
English
Description
"Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains,...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiv, 182 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with Alcott's novel--what it has meant to them and why it still matters. Each takes as her subject one of the four March sisters, reflecting on their stories and what they have to teach us about life. Kate Bolick finds parallels in oldest sister Meg's brush...
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 322 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A kaleidoscopic anthology of essays published by Catapult magazine about the stories our bodies tell, and how we move within--and against--expectations of race, gender, health, and ability. Bodies are serious, irreverent, sexy, fragile, strong, political, and inseparable from our experiences and identities as human beings. Pushing the dialogue and confronting monolithic myths, this collection of essays tackles topics like weight, disability, desire,...
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents essays by first- and second-generation immigrant writers on the realities of immigration, multiculturalism, and marginalization in an increasingly divided America. From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. In this much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling UK edition, hailed by...
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xiv, 290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"One hundred poems. One hundred voices. One hundred points of view. . . . 'Please Excuse This Poem' features one hundred acclaimed younger poets from truly diverse backgrounds and points of view whose work has appeared everywhere from 'The New Yorker' to Twitter, tackling a startling range of subjects in a startling range of poetic forms. Dealing with the aftermath of war; unpacking the meaning of 'the rape joke'; sharing the tender moments at the...