{"product_id":"sour-heart-book-jenny-zhang-9780399589386","title":"Sour Heart","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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 of Zadie Smith and Helen Oyeyemi. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWinner of the PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e- Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e - NPR - \u003ci\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e - \u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of \u003ci\u003eSour Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Narrated by the daughters of Chinese immigrants who fled imperiled lives as artists back home only to struggle to stay afloat--dumpster diving for food and scamming Atlantic City casino buses to make a buck--these seven stories showcase Zhang's compassion, moral courage, and a perverse sense of humor reminiscent of \u003ci\u003ePortnoy's Complaint\u003c\/i\u003e. A darkly funny and intimate rendering of girlhood, \u003ci\u003eSour Heart \u003c\/i\u003eexamines what it means to belong to a family, to find your home, leave it, reject it, and return again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eSour Heart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jenny Zhang's] coming-of-age tales are coarse and funny, sweet and sour, told in language that's rough-hewn yet pulsating with energy.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the knockout fiction debuts of the year.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--New York\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Compelling writing about what it means to be a teenager . . . It's brilliant, it's dark, but it's also humorous and filled with love.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eIsaac Fitzgerald, \u003ci\u003eToday\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  A] combustible collection . . . in a class of its own.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Booklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gorgeous and grotesque . . .  a] tremendous debut.\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49795220078865,"sku":"CIN0399589384VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50272775897361,"sku":"CIN0399589384G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50351113339153,"sku":"CIN0399589384A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50505704997137,"sku":"GOR013976511","price":12.5,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0399589384.jpg?v=1751390870","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-ch\/products\/sour-heart-buch-jenny-zhang-9780399589386","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}