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Aug 01, 2017 a darkly funny and intimate rendering of girlhood, sour heart examines what it means to belong to a family, to find your home, leave it, reject it, and return again. Then come back and read her debut collection because youll now adore her and her stories. Read sour heart stories by jenny zhang available from rakuten kobo. Aug 14, 2017 jenny zhangs astounding shortstory collection, sour heart, combines ingenious and tightly controlled technical artistry with an unfettered emotional directness that frequently moves. Signin to download and listen to this audiobook today. Read sour heart pdf stories by jenny zhang lenny a sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the. In a move i will go ahead and describe as audacious, zhang employs just a. In this debut collection, she conjures the disturbing and often hilarious experience of adolescence through the eyes of chinese american girls growing up in new york city. Jenny zhang, greta jung, jenny zhang, full cast, audible studios for bloomsbury. Jenny zhangs obscene, beautiful, moving story collection.
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