Hunger - by Lan Samantha Chang (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In luminous prose, Lan Samantha Chang weaves the forces of war and magic, food and desire, ghosts and family, into haunting tales that capture the compelling experiences of Asian immigrants in America.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The novella and five stories that make up this collection reveal the lives of immigrant families haunted by lost loves: a ghost seduces a young girl into a flooded river; a mother commands a daughter to avenge her father's death; and in the title novella, a woman speaks from beyond the grave about her tragic marriage to an exiled musician whose own disappointments nearly destroyed their two daughters.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>The novella and five stories that make up this collection reveal the lives of immigrant families haunted by lost loves: A ghost seduces a young girl into a flooded river; a mother commands a daughter to avenge her father's death; and in the title novella, a woman speaks from beyond the grave about her tragic marriage to an exiled musician whose own disappointments nearly destroyed their two daughters. The characters, whose culture and families have been lost to the forces of history, mistrust connection even as they hunger for attachment.<P>In exquisite prose Lan Samantha Chang weaves the forces of war and magic, food and desire, ghosts and family, into haunting tales that reveal the mysteries of the heart. Again and again, she asks the question: Is ordinary love not a kind of burden, stifling and terrifying in the choices and responsibilities it forces on us? And yet we yearn for it, suffer for it, define ourselves by our experience of it, cannot live without it.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>A work of gorgeous, enduring prose.-- "Washington Post"<br><br>Elegant.... A delicately calculated balance sheet of the losses and gains of immigrants whose lives are stretched between two radically different cultures.-- "The New York Times Book Review"<br><br>Impeccable. . . . Delicately specific tales of Chinese immigrant life . . . capturing the universal struggles of the human heart. . . . So luminous is this collection, the result is something like a pearl.-- "San Diego Union-Tribune"<br>
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