All that work and still no boys / Kathryn Ma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ma, Kathryn.

Series:

Iowa short fiction award.

The Iowa short fiction award

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, American.

American fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (162 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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

Notes:

Iowa short fiction award

ISBN:

1-58729-878-3

OCLC:

646846707