![]() This sourness is a point of pride, a family resemblance that binds the two of them difference is recast as uniqueness – an ability to appreciate those special qualities misunderstood by others. ![]() Sour girl, tartberry, sour grape, sour apple, sourheart: these are the fond epithets given to Christina, a little girl who, like her mother, loves only the tartest of fruits, gleefully puckering her mouth to suck their juices. Will she become one of us?” Christina asks her eight-months pregnant mother, who replies, “That’s the dream, sourheart.” “Will she be sour too? I pointed at her belly. In Zhang’s stories, young female narrators – sour and sweet, wild and wilful – bear witness to the journeys of their families, who have left China to establish new lives in the US. ![]() ![]() Zhang (right) is a young poet and essayist, and Sour Heart is the first title acquired by Lena Dunham for her Lenny imprint at Random House in the US. “A m I still the sourest girl you know?” asks Christina, protagonist of the two stories that bookend Shanghai-born American writer Jenny Zhang’s moving and energetic debut collection. ![]()
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