Overview
āThere is so much heart in these pages, so much wisdom on how we love. This book had me in its orbit, from beginning to end.ā ā Weike Wang, author of Joan is Okay
Holding Pattern. Noun.
1. A state of suspended progress.
2. The awkward way your mother tries to hug you now that you live with her.Ā Again.
Kathleen Cheng has blown up her life. Sheās gone through a humiliating breakup, dropped out of her graduate program, and left everything behind. Now sheās back in her childhood home in Oakland, wondering whatās next.
To her surprise, her mother isnāt the same person Kathleen remembers. No longer depressed or desperate to return to China, the new Marissa Cheng is sporty, perky, and has been transformed by love. Kathleen thought sheād be planning her own wedding, but instead finds herself helping her mother plan hersāto a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur.
Grasping for direction, Kathleen takes a job at a start-up that specializes in an unconventional form of therapy based on touch. While she negotiates new ideas about intimacy and connection, an unforeseen attachment to someone at work pushes her to rethink her relationshipsāespecially the one with Marissa. Will they succeed in seeing each other anew, adult to adult?
As they peel back the layers of their historyāthe old wounds, cultural barriers, and complex affectionāthey must come to a new understanding of how they can propel each other forward, and what theyāve done to hold each other back. Brilliantly observant, tender, and warm, Holding Pattern is a hopeful novel about immigration and belonging, mother-daughter relationships, and the many ways we learn to hold each other.
This book title, Holding Pattern (A Novel), ISBN: 9780593539705, by Jenny Xie, published by Penguin Publishing Group (June 20, 2023) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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