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Little seed / Wei Tchou.
Van Pelt Library CT275 .T35945 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tchou, Wei, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tchou, Wei--Family.
- Tchou, Wei.
- Women--United States--Biography.
- Women.
- Ferns.
- Pteridophyta (division).
- Families.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 273 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum ; Austin, Texas : A Strange Object, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Little Seed is an experimental memoir that braids together the narrative of the author's relationship with her brother and family with a deeply personal field guide to ferns. The chapters move associatively, commenting on each other indirectly and drawing out questions of assimilation, race, class, gender, nature and the general problem of being and knowing. When the author's brother has a psychotic break, the rigid structure of the book itself breaks apart and the protagonist adventures to the cloud forest of Oaxaca in order to truly live: to know the world by experiencing it rather than reading about it or following the direction of others. Some persistent themes throughout the book: What does it mean to be Chinese? What is love and how best to love? What really is a fern?"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tchou, Wei. Little seed
- ISBN:
- 9781646053360
- 1646053362
- OCLC:
- 1407211317
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