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"Tomb Sweeping probes the loyalties we hold: to relatives, to strangers, and to ourselves. In stories set across the US and Asia, Alexandra Chang immerses us in the lives of immigrant families, grocery store employees, expecting parents, and guileless lab assistants"--
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Un jeune homme peint des clous au salon de coiffure du quartier. Une femme plume des poules dans une usine de transformation alimentaire. Un père emballe des meubles destinés à des maisons qu'il n'aura jamais les moyens d'habiter. Une femme au foyer apprend l'anglais en écoutant des téléromans.
Souvankham Thammavongsa donne voix à des personnages qui luttent pour gagner leur vie, fait résonner leurs espoirs, leurs déceptions, leurs...
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"In this collection of stories, dreams collide with reality, modernity collides with antiquity, myth with true identity; women grapple with desire, with ego, with motherhood and mortality. The stories travel from India to America and back again to reveal the small moments of beauty, pain, and power that contain the world"--Provided by publisher.
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"The debut of an electric literary talent. Brilliantly quirky, often moving, always gorgeously told….Bravo for this fabulous American fiction!"
-Chang-Rae Lee, New York Times bestselling author of Native Speaker
"A wonderful story collection that's as wide and rich and complex as the geography it spans."
- Ben Fountain, PEN/Hemingway award-winning author of Brief Encounters with Che Guevera
"Tenorio is a deep and original writer, and Monstress...
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"Set on five continents and spanning decades, We Two Alone traces the arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. A young laundry boy risks his life, pretending to be a girl to play organized hockey in Canada in the 1920s. A Canadian couple is caught in when Shanghai is succumbs to violence during the Second Sino-Japanese War. A family struggles to buy a home in South Africa in the early years of apartheid. An actor in New York struggles...
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A woman grieves a miscarriage, haunted by the Buddha's birth. An artist with schizophrenia tries to survive hatred and indifference in small-town India by turning to the beauty of sculpture and dance. Orphans in India get pulled into a strange "rescue" mission aimed at stripping their mysterious powers. A brief but intense affair between two women culminates in regret and betrayal. A boy seeks memories of his sister in the legend of a woman who weds...
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From the acclaimed author of Little Gods, whose “gift merges science, politics and art: the kind of audacity our world needs now” (Gina Apostol),comes an immersive and electrifying story collection that explores self-construction, female resilience, and migrations both literal and transformative.
Meng Jin’s critically acclaimed debut novel, Little Gods, was praised as “spectacular and emotionally polyphonic (Omar El-Akkad, BookPage), “powerful”...
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The fable-like stories in A Sense of the Whole-reminiscent of the best of Kawabata, Hrabal, Lispector, and Kafka-create profound effects on the reader within very short spaces. Small in size, but not in resonance, Siamak Vossoughi's stories feature characters who refuse to believe that we are unconnected, refuse to not aspire to the notion of the human family across all manner of differences. These characters are girls and boys, men and women, Iranians...
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"The protagonists of these skillful and inventive stories have traveled various paths-from Japan to Brazil, L.A. to Gardena, San Francisco to Tokyo-but along the way, they have all become archivists, whether they know it or not. They examine the contents of deceased relatives' freezers, tape-record high-school locker-room chatter, cart the contents of a household cross-country, or collect a community's gossip while cleaning the teeth of its inhabitants....
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Through the lens of the surreal and the mundane, author Anthony Wong explores what it means to be alone, and in the process, what it means to change.
Written at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, A Shape and a Run is a collection of short stories centered around the concept of isolation, its origins, manifestations, and effects on people. Wong artfully taps into the often-debilitating emotions that spring from within this shared state of loneliness....
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Winner of the 2021 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction
"The stories in A New Race of Men from Heaven move elegantly between the ache of loneliness and the grace of connection, however fleeting."
-Danielle Evans, author of The Office of Historical Corrections
A New Race of Men from Heaven is a collection of stories about those who struggle to live in a world inherited on their own terms, of characters who may at times wander, but are never...
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A man returns to Hoi An in his retirement to compose a poem honoring his parents. Two teenagers, ostracized in a private school, forge an unlikely bond. A son discovers the truth about his father's business ventures and his dreams of success. A young bride, isolated on a remote island with her new husband, finds community in a group of abalone divers.
Taking the title for his debut collection of short fiction from the walled palace of Vietnam's Nguyen...
15) Last of Her Name
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Winner of the 2020 PEN America Literary Award for Debut Short Story Collection, Mimi Lok's Last of Her Name narrates the interconnected lives of diasporic women from '80s UK suburbia to WWII Hong Kong and contemporary California
Mimi Lok's Last of Her Name is an eye-opening story collection about the intimate, interconnected lives of diasporic women and the histories they are born into. Set in a wide range of time periods and locales, including '80s...
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Newly graduated from high school with her whole world in front of her, Isabella has everything she could ever ask for until she meets Sebastian.A boy whose life is falling apart before his eyes.A boy who is not in high society and, therefore, her mother would never approve.A boy who seems to put her at ease like no one else has ever done.The Skyline Mansion series introduced Isabella and Sebastian in their late twenties after they had drifted apart,...
17) With Honors
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Success in life takes more than straight A's. Melinda is an honors engineering student with a secret: she has cheated on every lab assignment since her junior year. As graduation day approaches, she realizes she can't keep trying to be someone she's not. Can she find a way to live her truth? This story was previously published in 2012.
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From the award-winning author of Perfume Dreams, a collection of thirteen short stories following Vietnamese immigrants new to the United States.
The thirteen stories in Birds of Paradise Lost shimmer with humor and pathos as they chronicle the anguish and joy and bravery of America's newest Americans, the troubled lives of those who fled Vietnam and remade themselves in the San Francisco Bay Area. The past-memories of war and its aftermath, of murder,...
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This story was originally released as Rose. It can be read as a stand-alone but it is also a retelling of the end of Rose's story in Forbidden Blossom from the perspective of Josephine and Charlie. -----Where one love ends, another begins.Josephine has run her family bakery for decades, but is now in debt and can't find proper help until one day Rose shows up and brings new hope. Charlie didn't have a choice when his family immigrated from Taiwan...
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"In eleven ... stories, [the author] gives voice to our most deeply held stereotypes and then slowly undermines them. His characters, almost all of who are first-generation Indian Americans, subvert our expectations that they will sit quietly by"--Amazon.com.
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