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Sour Heart

by Jenny Zhang
Sour Heart - Thryft
Sour Heart - Thryft

Immigrant families navigate identity in 1990s NYC.

If you've ever felt caught between worlds, "Sour Heart" could offer a resonate chorus to your own life narratives. Through the lens of Chinese and Taiwanese immigrants carving out a space in New York, Zhang lays bare the trials and intimacy of family life, intertwined with personal and historical burdens. Each story is a thread in the fabric of a shared immigrant experience, stitched together with a raw, unfiltered voice that promises to leave you contemplatively heartened.

  • New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Nominee (2018)
  • PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (2018)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (2017)
  • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize Nominee for Fiction and Poetry (2018)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Sour Heart

by Jenny Zhang
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ISBN: 9781408892374
Authors: Jenny Zhang
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Date of Publication: 2018-05-03
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Contemporary
Related Topics: Asian Literature
Goodreads rating: 3.69
(rated by 7913 readers)

Description

Centered on a community of immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in China and Taiwan for the constant struggle of life at the poverty line in 1990s New York City, Zhang’s collection examines the many ways that family and history can weigh us down and also lift us up. From the young woman coming to terms with her grandmother’s role in the Cultural Revolution to the daughter struggling to understand where her family ends and she begins, to the girl discovering the power of her body to inspire and destroy, these seven stories illuminate the complex and messy inner lives of girls struggling to define themselves.
 

Immigrant families navigate identity in 1990s NYC.

If you've ever felt caught between worlds, "Sour Heart" could offer a resonate chorus to your own life narratives. Through the lens of Chinese and Taiwanese immigrants carving out a space in New York, Zhang lays bare the trials and intimacy of family life, intertwined with personal and historical burdens. Each story is a thread in the fabric of a shared immigrant experience, stitched together with a raw, unfiltered voice that promises to leave you contemplatively heartened.

  • New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Nominee (2018)
  • PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (2018)
  • Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction (2017)
  • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize Nominee for Fiction and Poetry (2018)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.