A powerful exploration of the Asian American experience, Hunger weaves the forces of war and magic, food and desire, ghosts and family into haunting tales of love and loss. -- Chicago Tribune.
Chang\'s Stories open up to readers a world of sadness and regret. . . . --Claire Messud, New York Times Moving and thought-provoking.
Complex and rueful, her fiction gives voice to internal struggles, withheld catalogues of loss. . . . [Lan Samantha Chang\'s] Stories constitute a delicately calculated balance sheet of the losses and gains of immigrants whose lives are stretched between two radically different cultures.
Hunger illuminates the experiences of first-generation immigrants from China, culturally and emotionally uprooted from their homeland, who mistrust connection even as they hunger for attachment--and how their choices shape their children.
The characters who inhabit this extraordinary collection are caught between the burden of their past and the fragility of their unchartered future.
A powerful exploration of the Asian American experience, Hunger weaves the forces of war and magic, food and desire, ghosts and family into haunting tales of love and loss
