Home Remedies
In twelve stunning stories of love, family, and identity, Xuan Juliana Wang s debut collection captures the unheard voices of an emerging generation Young, reckless, and catapulted toward uncertain futures, here is the new face of Chinese youth on a quest for every kind of freedom.From a crowded apartment on Mott Street, where an immigrant family raises its first real Americans, to a pair of divers at the Beijing Olympics poised at the edge of success and self discovery, Wang s unforgettable characters with their unusual careers, unconventional sex lives and fantastical technologies share the bold hope that, no matter where they ve come from, their lives too can be extraordinary. New Read Home Remedies By Xuan Juliana Wang For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr A gorgeous collection of short stories that centers the Chinese millennial experience and spans topics like immigration, family, romance, and how where we come from affects how we relate to others This is going to be a lop sided review because I have to first focus on my favorite story from this collection, Vaulting the Sea Vaulting the Sea made my poor gay heart break and heal and ache as I cheered for its queer protagonist Taoyu This story focuses on Taoyu and his best friend Hai, a pai A gorgeous collection of short stories that centers the Chinese millennial experience and spans topics like immigration, family, romance, and how where we come from affects how we relate to others This is going to be a lop sided review because I have to first focus on my favorite story from this collection, Vaulting the Sea Vaulting the Sea made my poor gay heart break and heal and ache as I cheered for its queer protagonist Taoyu This story focuses on Taoyu and his best friend Hai, a pair of synchronized divers poised for success at the Beijing Olympics With beautiful, subtle prose Wang writes about Taoyu s coming of age of his own queer identity as well as his relationship with his mother You can literally imagine me whisper screaming oh my gosh, Taoyu, I love you in an emotional frenzy as I flipped the pages of this oh so quiet yet compelling short story I feel like Vaulting the Sea represents what Wang does best in the strongest stories in this collection capturing real emotions and...A strong debut collection of short stories Billed as being specifically about the Chinese millennial experience, but in fact it s rather broader than that there s nothing about unconventional sex lives or fantastic technologies in here either That blurb is weird The 12 stories are sorted into three sections Family , Love , and Time and Space One of the most exciting things about this collection is its variety of voices and tones, the sense that each new story represents a complet A strong debut collection of short stories Billed as being specifically about the Chinese millennial experience, but in fact it s rather broader than that there s nothing about unconventional sex lives or fantastic technologies in here either That blurb is weird The 12 stories are sorted into three sections Family , Love , and Time and Space One of the most exciting things about this collection is its variety of voices and tones, the sense that each new story represents a completely fresh perspective At times, Xuan Juliana Wang s writing made me think of Jen George or Kristen Roupenian, but really, Home Remedies is its own thing.My favourites were Days of Being Mild Largely plotless account of a group of Bei Piao, the twenty somethings who drift aimlessly to the northern capital, a phenomenal tumble of new faces to Beijing They fall in love, break up, make music, watch porn, go drinking The story is packed with details that feel authentic, tender and or funny.We ...I m usually not a huge fan of short story collections, mainly because I don t like the incomplete nature of short stories and the feeling I always get that I m being left hanging One of the things I detest most when I m reading is to get deep into a story and its characters, only to have it end abruptly, with no logical conclusion to speak of the ones that annoy me the most are those that feel like the author stopped in the middle of a thought and the writing all of a sudden drops off thes I m usually not a huge fan of short story collections, mainly because I don t like the incomplete nature of short stories and the feeling I always get that I m being left hanging One of the things I detest most when I m reading is to get deep into a story and its characters, only to have it end abruptly, with no logical conclusion to speak of the ones that annoy me the most are those that feel like the author stopped in the middle of a thought and the writing all of a sudden drops off these are also the ones that always make me think I am missing pages somewhere and perhaps I got a defective copy of the book I guess you can say that I like my stories with a beginning, a middle section, and an ending, with characters that I can watch grow and develop over time and maybe even become invested in, which is hard to do with short stories wher...What a remarkable, imaginative collection of stories There is nothing here that I ve seen before The garden of Chinese characters is exotic to me simply because I ve known nothing about them The writing is elegant, sophisticated, and sometimes mature beyond what I would expect from somebody who looks as young as Wang does in her photo Stories range from self entitled rich kids who I didn t know existed in Communist China to old souls who understand growing old and loss and change.Kudos to th What a remarkable, imaginative collection of stories There is nothing here that I ve seen before The garden of Chinese characters is exotic to me simply because I ve known nothing about them The writing is elegant, sophisticated, and sometimes mature beyond what I would expect from somebody who looks as young as Wang does in her photo Stories range from self entitled rich kids who I didn t know existed in Communist China to old souls who understand growing old and loss an...One of my favorite sensations as a reader is stumbling across something perfect and unexpected, something you weren t looking for and never knew you needed, and you come away feeling richer for the experience Home Remedies does that, repeatedly, with each strange little slice of life feeling like a concentrated burst of observation, a window into a truly strange stranger s head, rendering a consistently alien experience somehow relatable, while your brain marinates in a stew of subtle details t One of my favorite sensations as a reader is stumbling across something perfect and unexpected, something you weren t looking for and never knew you needed, and you come away feeling richer for the experience Home Remedies does that, repeatedly, with each strange little slice of life feeling like a concentrated burst of observation, a window into a truly strange stranger s head, rendering a consistently alien experience somehow relatable, while your brain marinates in a stew of subtle details that feel right even when you re not entirely sure what they all mean.What we have here, in simpl...Called a radiant new talent by Lauren Groff, Xuan Juliana Wang has written a debut collection about Chinese millennials Weike Wang says these stories surprise and challenge in wonderful, wonderful ways Electric LitThis collection of short stories blowed me away One doesn t expect such level of expertise and command of the genre from a first collection, but Wang is definitely a short story writer She may go on to write novels as well, bu...via my blog It s what Taoyu wanted, to disappear from Hai s life completely, to leave a wound that would ache That was the only way they could be equals Home Remedies is a gorgeous collection of stories about Chinese immigration, family structure, love, sex and the privilege of choices The future for each character is never certain, and splits open guiding them to places they never imagined they would be Home, some make their way in American life with via my blog It s what Taoyu wanted, to disappear from Hai s life completely, to leave a wound that would ache That was the only way they could be equals Home Remedies is a gorgeous collection of stories about Chinese immigration, family structure, love, sex and the privilege of choices The future for each character is never certain, and splits open guiding them to places they never imagined they would be Home, some make their way in American life with ease, abandoning their old skins and sometimes their family too Others cling to the old ways of a country they will never return to One thing is certain, each person will make their own story, even if it means becoming someone other than what s expected.In White Tiger of the West, the world is weary of Grandmasters, there no longer seems to be a place for spirituality but for one obedient little girl Grandmaster Tu could be the very thing that awakens a ti...Taoyu sent Hai s name echoing in the halls of the dormitory he ran to him at full speed He needed something that only Hai could give him He knew it was love Only Hai could replace his wasted heart with his own Vaulting the Sea, Xuan Juliana WangWang wields the raw, cathartic quality of a storyteller who can render her readers to tears with no effort at all A reader like me, especially, who sobbed in the corner of a coffee shop as I pored over these characters and the bottomless d Taoyu sent Hai s name echoing in the halls of the dormitory he ran to him at full speed He needed something that only Hai could give him He knew it was love Only Hai could replace his wasted heart with his own Vaulting the Sea, Xuan Juliana WangWang wields the raw, cathartic quality of a storyteller who can render her readers to tears with no effort at all A reader like me, especially, who sobbed in the corner of a coffee shop as I pored over these characters and the bottomless depths of emotion and concern with which she writes their lives For anyone who s ever felt like a trespasser in their own body, culture or country, I believe Home Remedies was written just for you.Through 12 stories, Home Remedies offers an eyewitness view at a number of Chinese individuals whose lives become upended by abandonment, death, sexual...A stunning debut short story collection that is about so muchthan just the young Chinese voices it captures Wang s voice is strong and distinct, different in every story, which is quite a feat of its own I felt each of the characters inhabiting the pages, almost as if they could have held their own novel instead of just fifteen to twenty pages I can t wait to see what is next from this writer There are three parts to the book, Family, Love, and Time and Space, and I had a favorit A stunning debut short story collection that is about so muchthan just the young Chinese voices it captures Wang s voice is strong and distinct, different in every story, which is quite a feat of its own I felt each of the characters inhabiting the pages, almost as if they could have held their own novel instead of just fifteen to twenty pages I can t wait to see what is next from this writer There are three parts to the book, Family, Love, and Time and Space, and I had a favorite story from each section Mott Street in July is about a family of Chinese Americans, specifically the experience of the kids growing up as the first of their family in America the sacrifices, pains, mistakes, and opportunities Butbroadly, it is an exquisite story about the divide, clash, coming together, and remaking of culture into something new Fuerdai to the Max is about the second generation rich, narrated by a kid you can t help but to l...
- 05 July 2017 Xuan Juliana Wang
- Hardcover
- 256 pages
- 1984822748
- Xuan Juliana Wang
- Home Remedies