The Sorrows of Others
eBook - ePub

The Sorrows of Others

  1. 128 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Sorrows of Others

About this book

A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35
REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE LONGLIST
THE STORY PRIZE LONGLIST

Set in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution, The Sorrows of Others is a dazzling collection about people confronted with being outsiders—as immigrants, as revolutionaries, and even, often, within their own families. In New York City, an art student finds an unexpected subject when she moves in with a grandmother from Xi'an, and boundaries are put into question. When a newlywed couple moves to Arizona, adapting to unfamiliar customs keeps their marriage from falling apart. A woman grapples with what it means to care for another, and the limits of that care, when her dying husband returns from Beijing years after abandoning her. And during a rainy summer in Texas, a visitor exposes the unspoken but unburiable history that binds two families together. Ada Zhang writes with startling honesty and love about lives young and old, in a stunning debut that explores what happens when we leave home and what happens when we stay, and the selves we meet and shed in the process of becoming.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. The Subject
  8. The Sorrows of Others
  9. Propriety
  10. Silence
  11. One Day
  12. Julia
  13. Any Good Wife
  14. Sister Machinery
  15. Knowing
  16. Compromise
  17. Acknowledgments
  18. About the Author