Jenny Zhang

"A debut collection of stories that plunge readers into the tender and chaotic hearts of adolescent girls growing up in New York City, from celebrated poet and National Magazine Award nominee Jenny Zhang"--

Stories

Sour Heart

My Baby First Birthday is about existence and non-existence. It's about being born--without consent. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce women to their violations, traumas, and body parts. She questions the way we feminize and racialize nurturing, and live in service of other people's dreams. How we idealize birth and being baby, how it's only in our mothers' wombs that we're still considered innocent, blameless, and undamaged, because it's only then that we don't have to earn love. Her poems explore the obscenity of patriarchy, whiteness, and capitalism, the violence of rescue and heroism. The magic trick in this book is that despite all these themes, the book never feels like some jeremiad. Zhang uses friendship as a lyric. She seeks tenderness, radiant beauty, and having love for your mistakes. Through all this, she writes about being alone--really alone, like why was I ever born alone--and trying, despite everything, to reach out and touch something--skin to skin, animal to animal.

My Baby First Birthday

Hags

Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Jenny Zhang's poems broadcast themselves with a surrealist anxiety. 'Can't I be my own dream?' she asks. The answer is always yes and always no. With dizzying energy and intelligence, Zhang forages through familial, global, and even anatomical configurations vainly outlining an identity that manifests only to shift and move restlessly on. This book brings to mind a 21st century Whitman, only female, Chinese, and profoundly scatological."—Elizabeth Robinson

Dear Jenny, We are All Find

Jane Smiley

Carmen Maria Machado

Kate Bolick

On its 150th anniversary, four acclaimed authors offer personal reflections on their lifelong engagement with Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of girlhood and growing up. For the 150th anniversary of Louisa May Alcott's beloved classic, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with Little Women--what it has meant to them and why it still matters. Each takes as her subject one of the four March sisters, reflecting on each particular sister's story and what it has to teach us. Bolick writes about how the depiction of Meg as the "ideal woman" reveals Alcott's dim views of marriage and planted seeds in Bolick's own young mind. Zhang, unlike many readers, considered Jo her least favorite sister as a girl, and writes about how Jo eventually won her heart. Machado brings her SF and horror sensibilities to a unique perspective on Beth, "dead & pure girl extraordinaire"; and Smiley, who considers Amy the most captivating sister, writes about Amy's evolution into the responsibilities of adulthood from the perspective of Smiley's own experience of motherhood. These four voices come together to form a deep, funny, far-ranging meditation on the power of great literature to shape our lives.

A Library of America Special Publication

March Sisters: on Life, Death, and Little Women

'Relegate anything else you're reading - there is no other book to be seen with now' The Times'Obscene, beautiful, moving' New YorkerThese seven startling stories of family, femininity, sexuality and otherness will plunge you into the tender and chaotic hearts of narrators you won't easily forget.Centred on a community of immigrants who have traded their endangered lives as artists in China and Taiwan for the constant struggle of life on the poverty line in 1990s New York City, the stories that make up Sour Heart examine the many ways that family and history can weigh us down, but also lift us up. From the young woman coming to terms with her grandmother's role in the Cultural Revolution, to the daughter struggling to understand where her family ends and she begins, to the girl discovering the power of her body to inspire and destroy, these vibrant, raw and powerful stories illuminate the complex and messy inner lives of girls struggling to define themselves. Fuelled by Jenny Zhang's singular voice and sly humour, Sour Heart introduces a bright new force in literary fiction.

The Selected Jenny Zhang

For fans of Greta Gerwig's acclaimed film, four acclaimed authors offer personal reflections on their lifelong engagement with Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of girlhood and growing up. For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with Alcott's novel--what it has meant to them and why it still matters. Each takes as her subject one of the four March sisters, reflecting on their stories and what they have to teach us about life. Kate Bolick finds parallels in oldest sister Meg's brush with glamour at the Moffats' ball and her own complicated relationship with clothes. Jenny Zhang confesses to liking Jo least among the sisters when she first read the novel as a girl, uncomfortable in finding so much of herself in a character she feared was too unfeminine. Carmen Maria Machado writes about the real-life tragedy of Lizzie Alcott, the inspiration for third sister Beth, and the horror story that can result from not being the author of your own life's narrative. And Jane Smiley rehabilitates the reputation of youngest sister Amy, whom she sees as a modern feminist role model for those of us who are, well, not like the fiery Jo. These four voices come together to form a deep, funny, far-ranging meditation on the power of great literature to shape our lives.

March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women

Nesta aclamada coleção de contos, Jenny Zhang constrói um retrato franco e subversivo da experiência de imigrantes asiáticas nos Estados Unidos. Eleito um dos melhores livros de 2017 por The New Yorker e The Guardian.Centradas em uma comunidade de imigrantes que trocaram a vida ameaçada na China e em Taiwan pelos percalços da Nova York dos anos 1990, as histórias que compõem Coração azedo examinam questões de família, sexualidade, identidade e gênero a partir do ponto de vista de narradoras marcadas por seu passado, que lutam para se definir e descobrir quem são.Seja a jovem tentando entender o papel de sua avó na Revolução Cultural, a filha lutando para estabelecer o limite entre ela e sua família, ou a garota que se dá conta do poder de seu corpo, Jenny Zhang constrói um retrato cru e poderoso de uma realidade brutal, onde ser imigrante — e mulher — tem um custo alto a ser pago.Selecionado por Lena Dunham como o primeiro livro de sua coleção editorial, Coração azedo é uma expressão sombria, crua e íntima sobre o que significa pertencer a uma família, encontrar sua casa, deixá-la, rejeitá-la e enfim retornar a ela.“Nunca vou esquecer a primeira vez que li Jenny Zhang... Fiquei chocada, comovida e, para ser honesta, com um pouco de inveja.” — Lena Dunham“A versão de honestidade de Zhang vai além do senso comum, com passagens que irrompem num brilho ousado e surpreendente. Prepare-se.” — Miranda July“Deixe de lado qualquer outra coisa que você esteja lendo — não há outro livro para ser visto agora.” — The Times“Obsceno, lindo, pungente... A surpreendente coleção de contos de Jenny Zhang combina técnica engenhosa a uma franqueza emocional [...] com frases únicas, que variam da beleza esmagadora à dor abjeta.” — The New YorkerVencedor do Los Angeles Times Book Prize e do PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize para ficção estreante. Finalista do New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award. Escolhido um dos melhores livros do ano por The New Yorker, The Guardian, Esquire, New York Magazine, National Public Radio, Nylon, O: The Oprah Magazine e BuzzFeed.

Contos

Coração azedo

Apre coeur

Nesta aclamada coleção de contos, Jenny Zhang constrói um retrato franco e subversivo da experiência de imigrantes asiáticas nos Estados Unidos. Eleito um dos melhores livros de 2017 por The New Yorker e The Guardian. Centradas em uma comunidade de imigrantes que trocaram a vida ameaçada na China e em Taiwan pelos percalços da Nova York dos anos 1990, as histórias que compõem Coração azedo examinam questões de família, sexualidade, identidade e gênero a partir do ponto de vista de narradoras marcadas por seu passado, que lutam para se definir e descobrir quem são. Seja a jovem tentando entender o papel de sua avó na Revolução Cultural, a filha lutando para estabelecer o limite entre ela e sua família, ou a garota que se dá conta do poder de seu corpo, Jenny Zhang constrói um retrato cru e poderoso de uma realidade brutal, onde ser imigrante — e mulher — tem um custo alto a ser pago. Selecionado por Lena Dunham como o primeiro livro de sua coleção editorial, Coração azedo é uma expressão sombria, crua e íntima sobre o que significa pertencer a uma família, encontrar sua casa, deixá-la, rejeitá-la e enfim retornar a ela. "Nunca vou esquecer a primeira vez que li Jenny Zhang... Fiquei chocada, comovida e, para ser honesta, com um pouco de inveja." — Lena Dunham "A versão de honestidade de Zhang vai além do senso comum, com passagens que irrompem num brilho ousado e surpreendente. Prepare-se." — Miranda July "Deixe de lado qualquer outra coisa que você esteja lendo — não há outro livro para ser visto agora." — The Times "Obsceno, lindo, pungente... A surpreendente coleção de contos de Jenny Zhang combina técnica engenhosa a uma franqueza emocional [...] com frases únicas, que variam da beleza esmagadora à dor abjeta." — The New Yorker Vencedor do Los Angeles Times Book Prize e do PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize para ficção estreante. Finalista do New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. Escolhido um dos melhores livros do ano por The New Yorker, The Guardian, Esquire, New York Magazine, National Public Radio, Nylon, O: The Oprah Magazine e BuzzFeed.

Susan Filan

Sam Hopley

Ric Morante

Jeff Stanger

Craig Tilley

Written by experienced NSW teachers, each student book is structured around key inquiry questions, and chapter content is organised according to syllabus outcomes.Student understanding is constantly checked as they progress through the book by:Question blocks - constantly review students' understanding of key concepts throughout each chapterCheckpoints - offer a range of question types to explore depth of understandingChapter Reviews - review understanding, encourage students to reflect on what has been learnt and offer research projectsSpecially-commissioned step-by-step photography in the student book and video lab experiment demonstrations in theobook were all carried out by an experienced science teacher, who has more than 20 years' experience in the Science classroom.Risk assessments for all experiments written by a NSW lab technician, are also included.Theobook is a cloud-based web-book available anywhere, anytime, on any device, navigated by topic or by 'page view'.assess is an indispensable online assessment tool, explicitly mapped to the NSW Syllabus for the Australian Curriculum that drives student progress through tailored instruction.As well as containing the student text and study tools, this obook offers a Virtual Laboratory containing specially-commissioned Australian-made lab experiment videos, drag & drops and other interactives.

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