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Sigrid Nunez+s early novel is the beautifully wrought story of one woman living precariously between cultures, a haunting tale of un-assimilation. Our narrator, the daughter of a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother, comes of age in the 1960s housing projects of New York. Desperate to... read more
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The first time I ever heard my father speak Chinese was at Coney Island.
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- Sigrid Nunez (Author)
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Page Count: 192
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