My Old Faithful
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award-winning multicultural fiction
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Character-driven stories
China economic transformation
Chinese American experience
Chinese American fiction
Chinese diaspora experience
Chinese history through fiction
Chinese social change fiction
Complex family relationships
contemporary Chinese literature
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cross-border family ties
Cross-cultural fiction
cross-cultural identity
Cultural conflict literature
cultural displacement themes
Cultural identity fiction
cultural memory and identity
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diaspora narratives
Domestic fiction
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East meets West narratives
economic transformation in China
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estrangement and reconciliation
everyday life dramas
exploration of belonging
extraordinary meaning
Family fiction
family loyalty and betrayal
Fiction about family relationships
fiction about forgiveness
Fiction by Yang Huang
Fiction for fans of Jhumpa Lahiri
fiction of loss and hope
fiction set in both China and America
generational conflict stories
Historical family fiction
human connection across distance
immigrant family saga
immigrant resilience in literature
Immigrant stories
interconnected narratives
intergenerational storytelling
Interwoven narratives
intimate family portraits
intimate portrayals of parents and children
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Literary fiction
literary fiction with cultural depth
Literary storytelling
multiple perspectives storytelling
Multiple point of view fiction
Nostalgia
nuanced family dynamics
ordinary lives
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Parent-child conflict fiction
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quiet humor in fiction
Realistic fiction
Return to homeland fiction
richly textured narratives
Short story collection
Sibling relationships
sibling rivalries in literature
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Stories about fathers
Stories about mothers
stories of adaptation and change
stories of love and sacrifice
Stories over time
Stories set in China
Stories set in the U.S.
stories spanning decades
subtle courage in daily life
tender yet painful family stories
U.S. immigrant experience
voices across continents
women returning home fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781625343369
- Weight: 275g
- Dimensions: 139 x 213mm
- Publication Date: 02 Feb 2018
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Showing both the drama of familial intimacy and the ups and downs of the everyday, My Old Faithful introduces readers to a close-knit Chinese family. These ten interconnected short stories, which take place in China and the United States over a thirty-year period, merge to paint a nuanced portrait of family life, full of pain, surprises, and subtle acts of courage. Richly textured narratives from the mother, the father, the son, and the daughters play out against the backdrop of China's social and economic change.
With quiet humor and sharp insight into the ordinary, Yang Huang writes of a father who spanks his son out of love, a brother who betrays his sister, and a woman who returns to China after many years to find her country changed in ways both expected and startling.
With quiet humor and sharp insight into the ordinary, Yang Huang writes of a father who spanks his son out of love, a brother who betrays his sister, and a woman who returns to China after many years to find her country changed in ways both expected and startling.
Yang Huang grew up in China's Jiangsu province and participated in the 1989 student uprisings. Her debut novel, Living Treasures, won the Nautilus Book Award silver medal in fiction, and her essay and short stories have appeared in The Margins, Eleven Eleven, Asian Pacific American Journal, The Evansville Review, Futures, Porcupine Literary Arts Magazine, and Nuvein. She lives in the Bay Area and works for the University of California, Berkeley.
