Herkenbare, universele ervaringen van een opgroeiende jonge vrouw, gesitueerd in het Taiwan van de jaren negentig‘Ga je dood?’ is de reactie die Tan vaak krijgt wanneer ze mensen vertelt dat ze haar memoires aan het schrijven is. Voor Tan is het echter een manier om haar verleden beter te leren begrijpen. In haar boek reflecteert ze op haar jeugd, die ze na de scheiding van haar ouders grotendeels in eenzaamheid doorbracht. Eerst in het huis waar ze als gezin hadde...

**The only difference between fiction and memoir is Truth ...A MULTIPLE TAIWANESE AWARD WINNER**Translated by Lin King, translator of International Booker Prize-winner, TAIWAN TRAVELOGUEReader love for A PERFECT DAY TO PUT YOUR HEAD IN THE OVEN***** ‘Reading this made me fly back to my own past’***** ‘I enjoyed its tenderness. Like the protagonist at the end, I felt warmth float into my...

In this fiendishly funny and charming novel, a young woman revisits her childhood and realizes all was not as it seemed.Tan’s attempt to write her first novel, A Clueless Man Shakes His Thump-Thumping Head, is not going well. She tries to write a memoir instead, but this involves checking her own memories against her parents and old classmates, who are surprised to hear from her after all these years. “Are you dying?” asks one perplexed friend.Tan ...

In this fiendishly funny and charming novel, a young woman revisits her childhood and realizes all was not as it seemed.Tan’s attempt to write her first novel, A Clueless Man Shakes His Thump-Thumping Head, is not going well. She tries to write a memoir instead, but this involves checking her own memories against her parents and old classmates, who are surprised to hear from her after all these years. “Are you dying?” asks one perplexed friend.Tan ...

For an open-access edition and online resources, including video and additional images, visit the CoronAsur page on Manifold. https://manifold.uhpress.hawaii.edu/projects/coronasurBy the summer of 2020, when the coronavirus had fully entered our everyday vocabulary and our lives, religious communities and places of worship around the world were already undergoing profound changes. In Asian and Asian diaspora communities, diverse cultural tropes, beliefs, and artifa...