Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

This brilliant debut novel by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is cause for celebration. Lorrie Moore"

Harmless Like You

"The notion of home has always been elusive. But as evidenced in these stories, poems, and testaments, perhaps home is not so much a place, but a feeling one embodies. I read this book and see my people--see us--and feel, in our collective outsiderhood, at home." --Ocean Vuong, author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds Asian diasporic writers imagine "home" in the twenty-first century through an array of fiction, memoir, and poetry. Both urgent and meditative, this anthology moves beyond the model-minority myth and showcases the singular intimacies of individuals figuring out what it means to belong.

Twenty-four Journeys from the Asian American Writers' Workshop and the Feminist Press

Go Home!

Starling Days

When she is sixteen, Kit suffers a summer of peculiar sleeplessness that isn't quite what it seems. Her body lies in bed while she wanders through her family home, the streets of her run-down seaside town and into the houses of friends and strangers. Unseen and unheard, she witnesses her parents and their fracturing relationship. Her home thrums with quiet violence that she can no longer ignore. With this secret knowledge it becomes impossible not to react and a single choice soon changes everything.

Sleepwatcher

Bernardine Evaristo

Nikesh Shukla

Carys Bray

Donal Ryan

Grace McCleen

D. W. Wilson

'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.' Zelda Fitzgerald Love is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from Philautia, self-love, to Agape, love for humanity; and from Storge, a natural affection for family, to Mania, a frenzied, obsessive love. Seven authors; seven short stories; seven flashes of love. The publication of How Much the Heart Can Hold is heralded by a Sceptre short story competition. The winning story, based on a concept of love, will be published in the paperback edition.

Seven Stories on Love

How Much the Heart Can Hold

An anthology of Asian diasporic writers musing on the notion of “home.” “Bold and devastating . . . the very definition of reclamation.” —The International Examiner Asian diasporic writers imagine “home” in the twenty-first century through an array of fiction, memoir, and poetry. Both urgent and meditative, this anthology moves beyond the model-minority myth and showcases the singular intimacies of individuals figuring out what it means to belong. “The notion of home has always been elusive. But as evidenced in these stories, poems, and testaments, perhaps home is not so much a place, but a feeling one embodies. I read this book and see my people—see us—and feel, in our collective outsiderhood, at home.” —Ocean Vuong, New York Times-bestselling author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous “To be from nowhere is the state of Asian diaspora, but there is also a wild humor and imagination that comes from being underestimated, rarely counted, hardly seen. Here, we begin to draw the hopeful outlines of a collective history for those so disparate yet often lumped together.” —Jenny Zhang, author of My Baby First Birthday “Language allows for many homes, and perhaps the writers—and readers of the anthology too—will succeed in returning home, or finding a home, through these words.” —NPR.org “Effectively dismantling all sorts of stereotypes, Buchanan’s anthology gives voice to notions of identity, belonging and displacement that are much more vast, complex and textually rich than mere geography.” —Shelf Awareness “Revolutionary for all the iterations of ‘home’ it shows through fiction, poetry, and memoir, sure to provoke a full range of emotions to swoon and clutch in my chest.” —Literary Hub

Senin Gibi Zararsiz

Innocua come te

‘Onschuldig als jij’ van Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is een prachtig geschreven roman. Het verhaal voert de lezer van New York, Connecticut naar Berlijn. ‘Onschuldig als jij’ gaat over Yuki Oyama, een Japans meisje, dat het probeert te maken als kunstenaar en Yuki’s zoon Jay, die als volwassen man zijn moeder Yuki weer opzoekt. Ze hebben elkaar al jaren niet gezien. Jay moet Yuki het testament van zijn vader overhandigen en confronteert haar met haar eigen verleden. Ze heeft hem verlaten toen hij 2 jaar oud was. ‘Onschuldig als jij’ is een sprankelende roman over identiteit, familie en vergiffenis. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan zet zichzelf er in één klap mee op de literaire kaart. ‘“Onschuldig als jij” is een feest om te lezen.’ – Lorrie Morre

Onschuldig als jij

New York, 1968. Die 16-jährige Yuki Oyama ist gefangen zwischen zwei Kulturen. Sie fühlt sich nicht als Japanerin, nicht als Amerikanerin. Als ihre Eltern zurück nach Tokio gehen, überzeugt sie sie schließlich, in New York bleiben zu dürfen. Sie will bleiben, eigenständig sein und ihre Kunst leben. Berlin, 2016. Galleriebesitzer Jay ist gerade Vater geworden. Dies nimmt er zum Anlass, seine Mutter, seine Vergangenheit, seine Wurzeln zu suchen. Er weiß nichts von ihr, außer dass sie ihn verließ, als er erst zwei Jahre alt war. Und dass ihr Name Yuki Oyama ist.

Roman

In ihrer Erinnerung war Japan eine Mischung aus Rosa und Grün

D.W. Wilson

The perfect alternative Valentine's gift Startlingly original stories S Magazine Together they assert that love is more heart-breaking and transforming that the word necessarily conveys. Observer Love is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from Philautia, self-love, to Agape, love for humanity; and from Storge, a natural affection for family, to Mania, a frenzied, obsessive love. Seven authors; seven short stories; seven flashes of love. 'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.' Zelda Fitzgerald This paperback edition of How Much the Heart Can Hold includes the winning short story from the SceptreLoves short story Prize.

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