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From 2011 to 2014, zhang wrote extensively for rookie. Writer jenny zhang on the secret languages inside your. Sour heart offers a fierce, fresh take on the hell of. In addition to her fiction and poetry, zhangs essays have been published by the new york times, poetry magazine, rookie, and buzzfeed. Zhang is a powerful fiction writer who offers an intimate look at girlhood. Consumer culture in china and southeast asia download books free. In this debut collection, she conjures the disturbing and often hilarious experience of adolescence through the eyes of chinese american girls growing up in new york city. Sour heart by jenny zhang, read by greta jung, jenny zhang, various. Read sour heart pdf stories by jenny zhang lenny a sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the. Booktopia sour heart by jenny zhang, 9781408892404. Zhangs version of honesty goes way past the familiar, with passages that burst into bold, startling, brilliance.
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