WINNER OF THE 2023 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR LESBIAN FICTIONA New York Times 100 Notable Book of 2022'These stories glitter and pulse'Dantiel W. MontizIn her singular,electrifying style,K-Ming Chang peels back questions of body,power and identity,and the relationships of Asian American women,with vivid imagination.A stream of women adjust to American life by sneaking kisses from women at temple and buying tubs of vanilla ice cream to prepare for citizenship tests. Ghost-cousins cross space,seas and skies to haunt their living cousin. Two girls explore each other's bodies for the first time in the belly of a plastic shark.Brimming with moths and mothers,nine-headed birds and storm-chasers,these queer,fabulist tales delve viscerally into myth and memory,corporeality and ghostliness,beauty and the grotesque.ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR in New York Times,NPR,Them and Book Riot,from the National Book Award'5 under 35'honoree and author of Bestiary.'Wild and lyrical,visionary and touching. Read her!'Sharlene Teo'A voracious,probing collection,proof of how exhilarating the short story can be'New York Times'Stunning and moving... One of our most brilliant authors'Bryan Washington
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781529114218Number of pages: 224Weight: 159 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 14 mm
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Alert to the ways reality can buckle and contort,Chang conjures fiction that is almost fairytale-like,mythical,unsettling - yet at the same time blisteringly alive and unapologetically queerThese stories glitter and pulseA voracious,probing collection,proof of how exhilarating the short story can be... Each one is possessed of a powerful hunger,a drive to metabolize the recognizable features of a familiar world and transform them into something wilder,and achingly aliveConstantly illuminating and thoroughly astounding... a stunning and moving work by one of our most brilliant authors.These stories by the Taiwanese American author of the gutsy 2020 debut novel Bestiary are obsessed with the vagaries of emigration and adolescence. Populated by ghosts and spirits,they dissolve the rigidities of American life into a slipstream of folkloric myth and transform the familiar world into something wilder.
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