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For businessexclusive pricing, quantity discounts and downloadable vat invoices. Jenny zhang born 1983 is an american writer, poet, and prolific essayist based in brooklyn. Aug 14, 2017 jenny zhangs astounding shortstory collection, sour heart, combines ingenious and tightly controlled technical artistry with an unfettered emotional directness that frequently moves. Jenny zhangs debut collection of short stories orbits around one of the most fundamental. Jenny zhang s astounding short story collection, sour heart, combines ingenious and tightly controlled technical artistry with an unfettered emotional directness that frequently moves, within single sentences, from overwhelming beauty to abject pain new yorker the writing is vibrant, the smells of the city vivid. 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. Signin to download and listen to this audiobook today.
Jenny zhang on sour heart, her debut book with lena dunham. Sour heart by jenny zhang overdrive rakuten overdrive. 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. The imprints first title, a debut short story collection by poet jenny zhang called sour heart, publishes august 1 and has been heralded as one of the biggest, buzziest books of 2017. Jenny zhang on sour heart, her debut book with lena dunhams. Wonderful selection of book covers created by janet hansen, a talented american designer working at alfred a. Aug 10, 2017 centred on a community of immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in china and taiwan for the constant struggle of life on the poverty line in 1990s new york city, the stories that make up sour heart examine the many ways that family and history can weigh us down, but also lift us up. The grotesque loveliness of sour heart the new republic. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
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