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"He was pulling his face away from hers so that a short stack of chins gathered at the top of his neck."
-"Future Cat"

"The years melted and quietly pooled at my feet."
-"Algorithmic Problem-Solving For Father-Daughter Relationships"

"If your heart is the fruit from which the nectar of comforting words could be squeezed, that fruit is dry. The dregs could be called mockery. They would sting him bitterly."
-"Home Remedies for Non-Life-Threatening Ailments"

-"Home Remedies for Non-Life-Threatening Ailments"

"I was this close to making it home but must have fallen asleep and nearly wiped out on the mountain road. Instead of driving off the cliff, I smeared blue paint all along the retaining wall and had to ditch my car there. I figured one day I‘d tell my kids, "See that? Your pops drew that.""
-"Fuerdai to the Max"

"Theirs was a Chinese love. It was not about making each other happy. It was about sacrifice. It was a love devoted to suffering for the beloved. They were supposed to sacrifice over and over again for each other, each getting a turn to give up something he or she did not want for the other, until one of them died."
-"Mott Street in July"

I often struggle with short stories but I really liked these. Maybe bite sized stories are easier to handle when your concentration is shot! Or maybe it‘s that these stories felt like they had some closure.
The protagonists are Chinese millennials, some living in the USA as first or second gen citizens. I really liked the modern, urban settings and the varying ways the characters were disconnected or had lost purpose. ⬇️

The spirit of these stories are 21st century Chinese youth with less baggage and more autonomy than their parents, whether they are in China (Beijing mostly) or elsewhere.

This was another story collection from the Tournament of Books longlist. My favorite stories were the first one, the title story, and the divers.

#7days7covers #covercrush Day 1
7 days, 7 covers you love, no explanation. Try to tag someone new each day.
@SW-T Thanks for the tag! 😀

Tag, you're it. 🖐 @j9brown

starting my reading for the #24in48 readaton this morning, I doubt I will actually get to 24 but going to try to get as much reading in as possible.

5/5🌟 What an amazing collection! These 12 captivating stories center around the Chinese millennial experience. But its about so much more than that. Themes of love, family, death, identity, reckless youth, and belonging.
This was an emotional for me. Her prose are remarkably beautiful, her characters are deep and well written. Every story had a distinctly different voice.She's is a brilliant storyteller!
#bookreview #bookstagram #shortstories

Not so much in a reading slump as I am working all the time right now and am exhausted. Working on multiple titles right now. Hoping to pick the pace back up again soon.

A wonderful collection of short stories about Chinese citizens in the "new" China, immigrants, Chinese Americans (first and second generation), family, love, ambition (or lack thereof), desire, and the way that life seems to spin out of our control. Beautiful sentences. Though some stories seem to just end, like we need a few more paragraphs to get a good conclusion. The beginnings are all fabulous; Wang really knows how to draw the reader in.

picked up a few more holds at the library after work & came home to discover my davids tea order had arrived 📖

I don‘t know if I am the best or the worst at library holds anymore.

This debut collection blew me away!!! The stories are about Chinese millennials (both in China and around the world) and it‘s got all the great short fiction stuff: beautifully drawn scenes and characters; twisty plots; weird premises. My favorite stories were: Vaulting the Sea, Echo of the Moment, and Future Cat. #netgalley

Home Remedies by Xuan Juliana Wang is a beautiful collection of short stories about a generation of Chinese.

https://onthebl.org/2019/05/11/home-remedies/