Sour Heart
Jenny Zhang
Random House Publishing Group
<b>A sly, intimate debut collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City&#8212;for readers of Zadie Smith, Helen Oyeyemi, and Junot D&iacute;az</b><br> A stunning exploration of race, class, and identity, <i>Sour Heart</i> establishes 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 riotous streets of Shanghai, China, during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. In the absence of grown-ups, latchkey kids experiment on each other until one day the experiments turn violent; an overbearing mother abandons her artistic aspirations to come to America but relives her glory days through karaoke; and a shy loner struggles to master English so she can speak to God.<br> Narrated by the daughters of Chinese immigrants who fled imperiled lives as...</br></br>