Overview
āGorgeous and gorgeously grotesque . . . Every line of this sensuous, magical-realist marvel is utterly alive.āāO: The Oprah Magazine
FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD ā¢ LONGLISTED FOR THE VCU CABELL FIRST NOVELIST AWARD ā¢ LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE ā¢ NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: The Oprah Magazine ā¢ NPR ā¢ The New York Public Library ā¢ Kirkus ReviewsĀ Ā
One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a womanās body. She was called Hu Gu Po, and she hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterward, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. And more mysterious events follow: Holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother; a visiting aunt arrives with snakes in her belly; a brother tests the possibility of flight. All the while, Daughter is falling for Ben, a neighborhood girl with strange powers of her own. As the two young lovers translate the grandmotherās letters, Daughter begins to understand that each woman in her family embodies a mythāand that she will have to bring her familyās secrets to light in order to change their destiny.
With a poetic voice of crackling electricity, K-Ming Chang is an explosive young writer who combines the wit and fabulism of Helen Oyeyemi with the subversive storytelling of Maxine Hong Kingston. Tracing one familyās history from Taiwan to America, from Arkansas to California, Bestiary is a novel of migration, queer lineages, and girlhood.
Praise for Bestiary
ā[A]Ā vivid, fabulist debut . . . the prose isĀ full of imagery. Changās wild story of a familyās tenuous grasp on belonging in the U.S. stands out withĀ a deep commitment to exploring discomfort with the body and its transformations.āāPublishers Weekly
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