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Pangs of Love: Stories
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ISBN10: 0385553196
ISBN13: 9780385553193
Publisher: Outsider Editions
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780385553193
Publisher: Outsider Editions
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.50
Language: English
First published in 1991, Pangs of Love, at once darkly funny and deeply humane, remains a landmark exploration of intimacy, culture, and the quiet wounds we carry, from a pioneer of contemporary Asian American literature. In Pangs of Love, David Wong Louie turns love into something far more dangerous than consolation. His unforgettable debut follows Chinese American men and women caught between cultural inheritance and American longing, searching for intimacy, acceptance, and identity, even as those desires expose their deepest fears. Love here is never simple. It collides with race, masculinity, family expectation, and the ache of never quite belonging. In the widely anthologized Displacement, an immigrant woman whose intelligence and history remain unseen by those around her confronts the quiet humiliations of exile, class, and invisibility until even her cherished rituals can no longer offer escape. Elsewhere, an apprentice sushi chef shares an improbable encounter inside an aquarium's otter tank, the Great Wall of China becomes the backdrop for an imperial baseball game, and a young woman struggles to imagine a future beyond her family's inheritance of loss. The stories in Pangs of Love announce a writer of rare emotional intelligence and remarkable range. With wit, precision, and extraordinary psychological insight, Louie captures the costs of wanting to be seen and the lasting marks left by love in a world that never fully makes room for you.
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