Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen: A Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen: A Novel write by Marilyn Chin. This book was released on 2009-07-20. Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen: A Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An uproarious debut that lays bare the complicated generational relationships of Chinese American women. Raucous twin sisters Moonie and Mei Ling Wong are known as the “double happiness” Chinese food delivery girls. Each day they load up a “crappy donkey-van” and deliver Americanized (“bad”) Chinese food to homes throughout their southern California neighborhood. United in their desire to blossom into somebodies, the Wong girls fearlessly assert their intellect and sexuality, even as they come of age under the care of their dominating, cleaver-wielding grandmother from Hong Kong. They transform themselves from food delivery girls into accomplished women, but along the way they wrestle with the influence and continuity of their Chinese heritage. Marilyn Chin’s prose waxes and wanes between satire and metaphorical lyric, referencing classical Chinese tales and ghost stories that are at turns sensual, lurid, hilarious, shocking, and surreal.
Bestiary
Bestiary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bestiary write by K-Ming Chang. This book was released on 2020-09-29. Bestiary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family’s queer desires, violent impulses, and buried secrets. “Gorgeous and gorgeously grotesque . . . Every line of this sensuous, magical-realist marvel is utterly alive.”—O: The Oprah Magazine FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: The Oprah Magazine • NPR • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman’s body. She was called Hu Gu Po, and she hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterward, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. And more mysterious events follow: Holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother; a visiting aunt arrives with snakes in her belly; a brother tests the possibility of flight. All the while, Daughter is falling for Ben, a neighborhood girl with strange powers of her own. As the two young lovers translate the grandmother’s letters, Daughter begins to understand that each woman in her family embodies a myth—and that she will have to bring her family’s secrets to light in order to change their destiny. With a poetic voice of crackling electricity, K-Ming Chang is an explosive young writer who combines the wit and fabulism of Helen Oyeyemi with the subversive storytelling of Maxine Hong Kingston. Tracing one family’s history from Taiwan to America, from Arkansas to California, Bestiary is a novel of migration, queer lineages, and girlhood. Praise for Bestiary “[A] vivid, fabulist debut . . . the prose is full of imagery. Chang’s wild story of a family’s tenuous grasp on belonging in the U.S. stands out with a deep commitment to exploring discomfort with the body and its transformations.”—Publishers Weekly
Rhapsody in Plain Yellow
Rhapsody in Plain Yellow - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rhapsody in Plain Yellow write by Marilyn Chin. This book was released on 2003-06-24. Rhapsody in Plain Yellow available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fusion of east and west, high culture, popular culture, and ancient Chinese history mark this distinguished collection.
A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems
A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems write by Marilyn Chin. This book was released on 2018-10-16. A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Dark, playful, incisive and heartbreaking.” —San Diego Union-Tribune Spanning thirty years of dazzling work—from luminous early love lyrics to often-anthologized Asian American identity anthems, from political and subversive hybrid forms to feminist manifestos—A Portrait of the Self as Nation is a selection from one of America’s most original and vital voices. Marilyn Chin’s passionate, polyphonic poetry is deeply engaged with the complexities of cultural assimilation, feminism, and the Asian American experience; she spins precise, beautiful metaphors as she illuminates hard-hitting truths.
The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty
The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty write by Marilyn Chin. This book was released on 2009. The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 15 years since this book came out, Marilyn Chin has been widely recognized as a consummate poet of the hybrid experience, blending East and West, popular and high culture, personal and political. Praised for its streetwise lyricism, this groundbreaking volume captures a young immigrant woman’s perspective as she encounters the nexus of tradition and commercialism in modern, diverse, and urban California. With this new edition, a modern classic is reintroduced to a new generation of readers.
