Patchwork dolls : stories / Ysabelle Cheung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheung, Ysabelle, 1989- Author.

Standardized Title:

Patchwork dolls (Compilation) http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/7cd0e6c0-828c-b299-56ac-ee955b3f87e0

Language:

English

Genre:

short stories.

Fiction.

Short stories.

Physical Description:

212 pages : 18 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Blair, an imprint of Carolina Wren Press, [2026]

Summary:

"In this debut story collection, Ysabelle Cheung weaves an eerie fabulism with tales that cross continents, technology, and time. Set in Hong Kong and America - between the present day and an uncannily altered future - this story collection warps the familiar rules of our world to ask: what does it mean to be Asian and a woman - living under the specter of state and technological surveillance - or trying to break free from it? In the title story, a young woman of color realizes she can make her fortune by surgically selling her facial features to whiter, wealthier clients. In "Please, Get Out and Dance," a group of rebels escapes a city that is literally disappearing around them - building by building, person by person - to migrate to a new home beneath the ocean, defying their government's mandate. "Herbs" follows an elderly widow who, when the clones of her dead husband start to appear uninvited in her home, must grapple with her memories. In each of these stories, Cheung tilts the world just slightly off its axis to bring together a haunting meditation on what it means to survive within our increasingly digitized and mechanized world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Mycomorphosis

Please, Get Out and Dance

To My Great-Granddaughter, Who Will Find This Letter When I Am Dead

The Reader

Find Your Spirit

The Patchwork Dolls

Galatea

Herbs

The In-Between

Not in This Neighborhood

Other Format:

Online version Cheung, Ysabelle, 1989- Patchwork dolls

ISBN:

9781958888643

1958888648

OCLC:

1499256952

Publisher Number:

90103709951