Details

Subject(s)

• Short stories, American [Browse]
• American fiction [Browse]

Series

• Iowa short fiction award. [More in this series]
• The Iowa short fiction award

Summary note

How do we survive our family, stay bound to our community, and keep from losing ourselves? In All That Work and Still No Boys, Kathryn Ma exposes the deepest fears and longings that we mask in family life and observes the long shadows cast by history and displacement. Here are ten stories that wound and satisfy in equal measure. Ma probes the immigrant experience, most particularly among northern California's Chinese Americans, illuminating for us the confounding nature of duty, transformation, and loss. A boy exposed to racial hatred finds out the true difference between his mother and hi

Notes

Iowa short fiction award

Language note

English

Contents

Contents; All That Work and Still No Boys; Second Child; The Scottish Play; For Sale By Owner; Prank; What I Know Now; Dougie; The Long Way Home; Gratitude; Mrs. Zhao and Mrs. Wu

ISBN

1-58729-878-3

OCLC

646846707

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