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From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, A Feather on the Breath of God, is a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love.

With a new introduction by Susan Choi, the National Book Award-winning author of Trust Exercises

A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the balletthese are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.

A Feather on the Breath of God

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    A Paperback / softback by Sigrid Nunez, Susan Choi

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      Publisher: Picador USA
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 31/08/2021
      ISBN13: 9781250816238, 978-1250816238
      ISBN10: 1250816238

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, A Feather on the Breath of God, is a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love.

      With a new introduction by Susan Choi, the National Book Award-winning author of Trust Exercises

      A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the balletthese are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.

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