Gods of Want

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"An electrifying book of stories by young Taiwanese American writer K-Ming Chang. In Anchor Baby, a girl wrestles with the growing debt that her birth (and US birth certificate) have cost her family. In Xifu (Daughter-in-law), a mother makes it her mission to get her daughter-in-law into trouble in her son's eyes, ludicrously faking her own deaths. In Dykes, a girl falls in love with her co-worker at a Las Vegas sushi restaurant, but fears she has disappeared when the desert city floods. In Aborigines, a daughter is sent to live with her aunts on an island haunted by soldier-ghosts, exploding whales and stray dogs, until her mother calls her back to California again. In the eponymous story Resident Aliens, a girl describes the series of widows who have rented her family's windowless basement, such as the one who taught her how to tie knots and get out of them, or the one she was in love with who left to become a nun. K-Ming contrasts the corporeal and nightmarish, and explores family entanglement, body politics and sexuality with a boundless and dark imagination."--Provided by publisher