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Activities of daily living : a novel / Lisa Hsiao Chen.
Van Pelt Library PS3603.H45 A64 2022
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Chen Activities
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chen, Lisa, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States.
- Immigrants--Fiction.
- Immigrants.
- Taiwanese--United States--Fiction.
- Taiwanese.
- Life change events--Fiction.
- Life change events.
- Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Performance artists--Fiction.
- Performance artists.
- Adult children of aging parents--Fiction.
- Adult children of aging parents.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 340 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022]
- Summary:
- "A lucid and moving debut novel on the interconnection between work and life, loneliness and kinship, and the projects that occupy our time. How do we take stock of a life-by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, aTaiwanese immigrant in her late thirties. In the off-hours from her day job, Alice struggles to create a project about the enigmatic downtown performance artist Tehching Hsieh and his monumental, yearlong 1980s performance pieces. As Alice roots deeper into Hsieh's radical use of time and his mysterious disappearance from the art world, her project starts metabolizing events from her own life. She wanders from subway rides to street protests, loses touch with a friend, and becomes a caretaker for her stepfather, a Vietnam vet whose dream of making traditional Chinese furniture dissolved in alcoholism and dementia. Moving between present-day and 1980s New York City, with detours to Silicon Valley and the Venice Biennale, Activities of Daily Living is a startlingly precise, vivid, and tender examination of the passage of time"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780393881127
- 0393881121
- OCLC:
- 1252845978
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