Description
From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, A Feather on the Breath of God, is a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love.
With a new introduction by Susan Choi, the National Book Award-winning author of Trust Exercises
A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.
Details
Author: |
Sigrid Nunez |
Introduction by: |
Susan Choi |
ISBN 10: |
1250816238 |
Pages: |
208 |
Publisher: |
Picador USA |
Publication Date: |
August 31, 2021 |
Binding: |
Paperback |
Weight: |
0.45lbs |