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The memory museum : stories / M Lin.
Van Pelt Library PS3612.I5128 M46 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lin, M, 1992- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Memory--Fiction.
- Memory.
- Asian Americans--Fiction.
- Asian Americans.
- Genre:
- short stories.
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 258 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2026]
- Summary:
- "Stretching from the present day to the near future, from China to America and beyond, M Lin's piercing and melodious debut captures the spirit of China's One-Child Generation as its characters navigate homes and cultures, hopes and contradictions, survival and resistance. These frank, tender, and playful stories offer profound insight into the ambivalence of migration, the perverse ways race and class can operate, and what it means to be Chinese today. The collection begins with "Scenes from Childhood," in which a lonely, elderly woman in a dystopian reality remembers her grandfather's village. In "Magic, or Something Less Assuring," a politically divided couple goes on a divorce honeymoon in Morocco. "You Won't Read This in the News" features four migrant workers during one night of petty theft and connection. In "Tough Egg," a filmmaker thwarted by censorship untangles her fraught relationship to motherhood. Other stories portray a photographer reuniting with her first love in Beijing; the historic White Paper protests that ended the zero-COVID policy; and generations into the future, a newly instated Memory Museum where two sensory architects share their vision for a utopian world. With daring political and creative commitment, The Memory Museum brims with joy even as Lin exposes the knife's edge between powerlessness and agency, pain and intimacy, our memories and our futures"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Scenes from childhood
- Magic, or something less assuring
- You won't read this in the news
- LUCY
- Shangri-la
- Yulan
- Tough egg
- No prairie fire can destroy all the weeds
- The memory museum.
- Other Format:
- Online version Lin, M, 1992- Memory museum
- ISBN:
- 9781644453858
- 1644453851
- OCLC:
- 1514991264
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