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1 online resource (147 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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The Iowa short fiction award
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Iowa short fiction award.
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| Summary |
Annotation How do we survive our family, stay bound to our community, and keep from losing ourselves?nbsp; InAll 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.nbsp; Here are ten stories that wound and satisfy in equal measure. Ma probes the immigrant experience, most particularly among northern Californiarsquo;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 his father. Two old rivals briefly lay down their weapons, but loneliness and despair wonrsquo;t let them forget the past. A young Beijing tour guide with a terrible family secret must take an adopted Chinese girl and her American family to visit an orphanage. And in the prize-winning title story, a mother refuses to let her son save her life, insisting instead on a sacrifice by her daughter.nbsp; Intimate in detail and universal in theme, these stories give us the compelling voice of an exciting new author whose intelligence, insight, and wit imparts a sense of grace to the bitter resentments and enduring ties that comprise family love. Even through the tensions Ma creates so deftly, the peace and security that come from building and belonging to onersquo;s own community shine forth. |
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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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Short stories, American.
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Short stories, American. |
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Short stories, American.
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American fiction.
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American fiction. |
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Electronic books.
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Fiction.
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Fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ma, Kathryn. All that work and still no boys. Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2009923716 |
| ISBN |
9781587298783 (electronic book) |
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1587298783 (electronic book) |
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9781587298226 |
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1587298228 |
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