It's one of many stories Daughter absorbs from the women in her family, about gourd daughters, buried gold and rabbit moons. Her name was Hu Gu Po and she paid the price for her body in hunger. One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: The Oprah Magazine, NPR, The New York Public Library and Kirkus Reviews. LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE. 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. Agent: Julia Kardon, HG Literary.'This is a powerful novel that will sit inside you for days after reading.' Sunday Times This stellar collection will leave readers hungry for more.
Chang’s bold conceits and potent imagery evoke a raw, visceral power that captures feelings of deep longing and puts them into words. She’s also haunted by the ghost of a girl her aunt accidentally shot many years earlier, has delicate conversations with a nun at a nearby temple, and searches for the old toy gun her brother lost before he left for the military. In “Anchor,” a young woman struggles with the verbal abuse of her aunt, who raised her after her mother died during childbirth. A wild mother-in-law repeatedly pretends to die and makes married life a living nightmare for the protagonist of “Xífù,” who envies her lesbian daughter for being unattached to men.
In “Episodes of Hoarders,” a woman nicknamed “little crab” grieves over her dead hoarder grandmother. In “The Chorus of Dead Cousins,” the unnamed narrator is constantly disrupted by the ghosts of her dead cousins and tries to escape them by traveling with her storm-chaser wife to record a tornado. Chang ( Bestiary) returns with a dazzling collection of stories within stories that draw on old myths to embody the heartache and memories of Asian American women.
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