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Things to Make and Break | May-Lan Tan

2 posts | 3 read | 2 reading | 7 to read

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD A motorcycle courier finds a cache of nude photos in her boyfriend's desk. The daughter of East German emigrants encounters her doppelg�nger, who has crossed another cultural divide. Twin brothers fall for the same girl. When a stripper receives an enigmatic proposal from a client, she accepts, ignorant of its terms. Shadows, doubles, and the ghosts of past and future lovers haunt these elegantly structured and often hallucinatory stories. The language is hypnotic, deadpan, intense; the sentences jewel-hard and sublime. Things to Make and Break is the work of a stylish, exuberant new voice in modern fiction. 'Quite dazzling' TLS

CaroPi

Things to Make and Break | May-Lan Tan

This year I decided to push myself a bit more than normal and read 60 books. I am very proud to say that I manage to do it! Probably I will not read so many next year but I am happy that manage to do it. #readingchallenge

ju.ca.no Congratulations😍😍🥳🥳🥳 5y

Megabooks 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 5y

sprainedbrain Awesome! 🥳🥳🥳 5y

CaroPi @ju.ca.no @Megabooks @sprainedbrain Thanks a lot!!! 5y

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readordierachel

Things to Make and Break | May-Lan Tan

pick

A couple of these stories were stellar. "Laurens" was my favorite; it went to a really unexpected place and I loved it. The rest were interesting and kept me reading, but I didn't always care about what they had to say, although I appreciated the diversity of relationships she portrayed. Tan is a gifted writer & some of her descriptions are pure poetry---"We drink the harbor lights and eat the salty air." (swoon!) ⬇️

readordierachel But sometimes these stories felt like exercises, like she was flexing her craft, showing the reader what she can do, trying a touch too hard to wow. Overall, a pick. She's talented and I will likely read whatever she follows this collection up with. 6y

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