Showing results for "Jade" in Literary Fiction

Chinatown, Vancouver, in the late 1930s and '40s provides the setting for this poignant first novel, told through the vivid and intense reminiscences of the three younger children of an immigrant family. They each experience a very different childhood, depending on age and sex, as they encounter the complexities of birth and death, love and hate, kinship and otherness. Mingling with the realities of Canada and the horror of war are the magic, ghosts, paper uncles and family secrets of Poh-Poh, or Grandmother, who is the heart and pillar of the family.

Quand Jade, une jeune femme moderne, "kidnappe" sa grand-mère pour lui éviter la maison de retraite et fait habiter à Paris celle qui n'a jamais quitté la campagne, beaucoup de choses en sont bouleversées. À commencer par l'image que Jade avait de sa Mamoune, si bonne, si discrète... Une histoire d'amour entre deux femmes, deux générations, au dénouement troublant.

Maya's been able to get by in New York on her wits and a dead-end bookstore job for years, but when her husband leaves her and her favorite professor ends their affair, her barely-calibrated life descends into chaos, and she has to make some choices. Maya's struggle to be alone, to be a woman, and to be thoughtful and imperfect and alive in a world that doesn't really care what happens to her is rendered with dead-eyed clarity and unnerving charm. This book takes every tired trope about addiction and recovery, "likeable" characters, and redemption narratives and blows them to pieces.

NAMED A NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST From the author of Once More We Saw Stars comes a gripping novel about four intertwined lives that collide in the wake of a mysterious tragedy. Set in a near-future world where the boundaries between human and AI blur, the story...

“Three relatable thirty somethings drive this ode to womanhood. Learning the hard way to love themselves, the women teach invaluable lessons.”—People “Everyone who loves Sally Rooney should be reading Jana Casale!”—Julie Buntin, author of Marlena Three women confront the...

Une envoûtante saga familiale sur les effets dévastateurs de la guerre. Novembre 1972, Hanoi. Face aux rumeurs d'offensive américaine, Huong et sa grand-mère, Dieu Lan, décident d'abandonner la capitale pour rejoindre les campagnes vietnamiennes. Un retour qui ravive le souvenir du départ de Dieu Lan, vingt ans plus tôt, chassée de la ferme familiale par la réforme agraire du gouvernement communiste nouvellement au pouvoir.

“A vibrant and moving debut that takes to heart our deferred dreams and the value of remaining hopeful.”—Diane Marie Brown, author of Black Candle Women How much of their lineage is one family willing to unearth in order to participate in the nation’s first federal reparations program?...

Depuis l'âge de quatre ans, Petite Fleur se fait bander les pieds par sa mère. Si elle supporte la douleur, c'est pour avoir des lotus d'or parfaits, des pieds de dix centimètres, qui lui assureraient un mariage respectable malgré la pauvreté de sa famille. Mais à la mort de son père, Petite Fleur est vendue comme muizai à la riche famille Fong et devient la suivante de Linjing, une petite fille gâtée et cruelle.