Jenevieve Chang reviews Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang
Sour Heart
by Jenny Zhang
ISBN 9780399589386
Reviewed by JENEVIEVE CHANG
“We hate soft peaches. We hate soft, sweet peaches and we love hard, sour plums,” mother tells daughter in “We Love You Crispina”, the first story in Jenny Zhang’s tender, brutal and deceptively artless Sour Heart, a collection of narratives about the immigrant experience that unfolds in the serpentine sentences of a child’s retelling, in all its vulnerability and unfettered access to primal love, pain and loss.
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