| A Feather on the Breath of God Contributor(s): Nunez, Sigrid (Author), Choi, Susan (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1250816238 ISBN-13: 9781250816238 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Cultural Heritage - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.3" W x 8" (0.45 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God, a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love. A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality. |