Alexander Chee
Author
Language
English
Description
Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an original role, every singers chance at immortality. When one is finally offered to her, she realizes with alarm that the libretto is based on a hidden piece of her past. Only four could have betrayed her: one is dead, one loves her, one wants to own her. And one, she hopes, never thinks of her at all. As she mines her memories for clues, she recalls...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring how we form our identities in life, in politics, and in art"--
"...How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author's manifesto on the entangling of life, literature, and politics, and how the lessons learned from a life spent reading and writing fiction have changed him. In these essays, he grows from student to teacher, reader to writer, and reckons with his identities...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
The 20th anniversary edition of a groundbreaking Asian-American queer classic by celebrated author Justin Chin
Floating somewhere between fiction and memoir, Burden of Ashes is a beautiful and brutal series of short stories in which childhood, homeland, and lovers both real and imagined succumb to whimsy, revision, denial, and truthful embellishment. Within these pages, Chin artfully creates a personal world where snake killings,
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Series
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
“A wonderfully resplendent evocation of a newcomer’s America” (Chang-rae Lee, author of Native Speaker) by the father of Korean American literature
A Penguin Classic
Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare...
“A wonderfully resplendent evocation of a newcomer’s America” (Chang-rae Lee, author of Native Speaker) by the father of Korean American literature
A Penguin Classic
Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
viii, 231 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A memoir of social life in the sexy, zany, and thoroughly decadent queer underground of San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles at a time when the manic frivolity of youth and queer liberation collided with the deadly reality of plague"--Back cover.
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents essays by first- and second-generation immigrant writers on the realities of immigration, multiculturalism, and marginalization in an increasingly divided America. From Trump's proposed border wall and travel ban to the marching of White Supremacists in Charlottesville, America is consumed by tensions over immigration and the question of which bodies are welcome. In this much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling UK edition, hailed by...
