{"product_id":"sour-heart-stories-9780399589409","title":"Sour Heart: Stories","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 BOOKS 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\u003e\"One 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJenny Zhang\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet and writer living in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lenny","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641977966866,"sku":"9780399589409","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3c89d35d-358b-428e-a69a-e56ee5706ee8.jpg?v=1733048918","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sour-heart-stories-9780399589409","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}