Ebook {Epub PDF} Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang

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. 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 Cultural Revolution of the s/5(). Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang. A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in Availability: In stock.  · Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang review – from China to the US. A bittersweet debut short story collection from the Shanghai-born poet and essayist gives Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.

"Jenny Zhang's Goo Aesthetics" by Ana Cecilia Alvarez, The Nation. " Jenny Zhang's Obscene, Beautiful, Moving Story Collection "Sour Heart" " by Jia Tolentino, New Yorker. Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang. It feels apt there's a luminous diagram of a heart on the cover of this book of short stories since it's a collection which brims over with emotional tales of family life. Christina, the narrator of the opening and closing stories, has a penchant for sour fruit so her parents nickname her "sour heart.". Sour Heart is one of those rare books that is both tough to get into, and tough to get out of. Jenny Zhang 's seven stories are all told by young women struggling with their own families, identities, and places in their oft-changing worlds. For me, this one contained both rocky moments and much content worth reading.

Book Review: Sour Heart., by Jenny Zhang. by Ellie Broughton. • 21st August 22nd August “Back when my parents and I lived in Bushwick in a building sandwiched between a drug house and another drug house, the only difference being that the dangers in one house were also the users and so more unpredictable, and in the other the dealers were never the users and so more shrewd – back in those days, we lived in a one-bedroom apartment so subpar that we woke up with flattened. Sour Heart. by Jenny Zhang. Penguin. ISBN Reviewed by JENEVIEVE CHANG. “We hate soft peaches. We hate soft, sweet peaches and we love hard, sour plums,” mother tells daughter in “We Love You Crispina”, the first story in Jenny Zhang’s tender, brutal and deceptively artless Sour Heart, a collection of narratives about the immigrant experience that unfolds in the serpentine sentences of a child’s retelling, in all its vulnerability and unfettered access to primal. A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City—for readers o.