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With a deceptively simple yet graceful style, and in the tradition of Lara Vapnyar, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Gish Jen, Frances Hwang captures the thousand minor battles waged in the homes of immigrants--struggles to preserve timehonored traditions or break free of them, to maintain authority or challenge it, and to take advantage of modern excesses without diluting one's ethnic identity. ... more

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Frances Hwang has a B.A. from Brown, an M.A. from the University of Virginia, and an M.F.A. from the University of Montana. She has attended the MacDowell Colony and Provincetown creative writing workshops, and she was the Olive B. O'Connor Creative Writing Fellow at Colgate University. She lives in Berkeley, California.

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9780316166935_154X233
Back Bay Books
Category:
FICTION
Format:
TRADE PAPERBACK
Publish Date:
4/18/2007
Price:
$13.99/$17.50
ISBN:
9780316166935
Pages:
240
Size:
5-1/2" x 8-1/4"

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