The sorrows of others
Call Number
- FICTION ZHAN (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York, NY : A Public Space Books, 2023
Physical Description
141 pages ; 21 cm
Summary
"Set in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution, The Sorrows of Others is a dazzling collection about people confronted with being outsiders--as immigrants, as revolutionaries, and even, often, within their own families. In New York City, an art student finds an unexpected subject when she moves in with a grandmother from Xi'an, and boundaries are put into question. When a newlywed couple moves to Arizona, adapting to unfamiliar customs keeps their marriage from falling apart. A woman grapples with what it means to care for another, and the limits of that care, when her dying husband returns from Beijing years after abandoning her. And during a rainy summer in Texas, a visitor exposes the unspoken but unburiable history that binds two families together. Ada Zhang writes with startling honesty and love about lives young and old, in a stunning debut that explores what happens when we leave home and what happens when we stay, and the selves we meet and shed in the process of becoming." --
Notes
"Stories"--Cover.
Contents
- The Subject
- The Sorrows of others
- Propriety
- Silence
- One day
- Julia
- Any good wife
- Sister machinery
- Knowing
- Compromise.