Chinese-American writer John Yau's short fiction collection is set in bleak neighborhoods of casual misunderstanding, habitual deception and oblique, transient encounters among strangers. At the heart of Yau’s artistic inquiry is that precarious and unstable thing “identity”—and the ways that isolation and alienation threaten identity altogether. The Review of Contemporary Fiction said, “These are stories that recount the symptoms of many, if not most of us.”
- ISBN10 1574230611
- ISBN13 9781574230611
- Publish Date 16 April 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 March 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher David R. Godine Publisher Inc
- Imprint Black Sparrow Press,U.S.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 208
- Language English