Fiona and Jane / Jean Chen Ho.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ho, Jean Chen, author.

Contributor:

Lisa Beth Deutsch Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taiwanese Americans--Fiction.

Taiwanese Americans.

Female friendship--Fiction.

Female friendship.

Genre:

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

275 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022]

Summary:

"A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades. Best friends since second grade, Fiona Lin and Jane Shen explore the lonely freeways and seedy bars of Los Angeles together through their teenage years, surviving unfulfilling romantic encounters, and carrying with them the scars of their families' tumultuous pasts. Fiona was always destined to leave, her effortless beauty burnished by fierce ambition -- qualities that Jane admired and feared in equal measure. When Fiona moves to New York and cares for a sick friend through a breakup with an opportunistic boyfriend, Jane remains in California and grieves her estranged father's sudden death, in the process alienating an overzealous girlfriend. Strained by distance and unintended betrayals, the women float in and out of each other's lives, their friendship both a beacon of home and a reminder of all they've lost. In stories told in alternating voices, Jean Chen Ho's debut collection peels back the layers of female friendship -- the intensity, resentment, and boundless love -- to probe the beating hearts of young women coming to terms with themselves, and each other, in light of the insecurities and shame that holds them back."--$cProvided by publisher.

Contents:

The night market

The inheritance

Go slow

Korean boys I've loved

Doppelgängers

Cold turkey

Kenji's notebook

The movers

Clairvoyance

Fiona and Jane.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lisa Beth Deutsch Memorial Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Ho, Jean Chen, Fiona and Jane

ISBN:

9780593296042

0593296044

OCLC:

1240306737