One Mighty and Irresistible Tide
- 336 Seiten
- 12 Lesestunden
A sweeping history of the twentieth-century battle to reform American immigration laws that set the stage for today's roiling debates.
Jia Qing Wilson-Yang taucht in ihren Schriften tief in die Komplexität von Identität und Zugehörigkeit ein und erforscht oft Themen durch eine einzigartige Linse, die von ihren gelebten Erfahrungen geprägt ist. Ihre kreative Arbeit, die Poesie, Belletristik und Musik umfasst, offenbart einen nuancierten Erzählstil und eine ausgeprägte Stimme, die bei den Lesern Anklang findet. Sie nähert sich der Erzählung mit einer scharfsinnigen Perspektive und bietet tiefgründige Reflexionen über den menschlichen Zustand. Ihr Romandebüt stellt einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur zeitgenössischen Literatur dar.
A sweeping history of the twentieth-century battle to reform American immigration laws that set the stage for today's roiling debates.
Fiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. SMALL BEAUTY tells the story of Mei, a mixed race trans woman managing the death of her cousin, the ways she contorts to navigate racism and transphobia, and her desire for community as she takes an opportunity to leave the city and revisit a town from her family's past, where she discovers queer family history while parsing through her own anger and trauma. Cycling through time, points of view, and rural and city life, the novel introduces us to Mei's community in fictional Dundurn and Herbertsville, loosely based on Southern Ontario places: Annette and Connie, other Asian trans women from the drop-ins; Sandy, Mei's older cousin and constant (if aggressive) support; Diane, an older lesbian with a pick-up and secret links to Mei's blood family; and Nelson, a presence lost before found, whose story is told in pictures sewn into a suitcase. Interspersed with one culminating night-time lake scene, the book carries us through these stories and towards their completion as the frustrating, necessary web that keeps Mei attached to the world.