![]() ![]() This stellar collection will leave readers hungry for more. Chang’s bold conceits and potent imagery evoke a raw, visceral power that captures feelings of deep longing and puts them into words. She’s also haunted by the ghost of a girl her aunt accidentally shot many years earlier, has delicate conversations with a nun at a nearby temple, and searches for the old toy gun her brother lost before he left for the military. His family upturns the yard in pursuit of the misplaced treasure, first by digging holes, then with a metal detector. ![]() Agong, to whom the gold belongs, has no recollection of where he stashed the two bars. In “Anchor,” a young woman struggles with the verbal abuse of her aunt, who raised her after her mother died during childbirth. Bestiary: A Novel, K-Ming Chang (One World, September 2020) B estiary opens with a quest for lost gold. ![]() A wild mother-in-law repeatedly pretends to die and makes married life a living nightmare for the protagonist of “Xífù,” who envies her lesbian daughter for being unattached to men. In “Episodes of Hoarders,” a woman nicknamed “little crab” grieves over her dead hoarder grandmother. In “The Chorus of Dead Cousins,” the unnamed narrator is constantly disrupted by the ghosts of her dead cousins and tries to escape them by traveling with her storm-chaser wife to record a tornado. Chang ( Bestiary) returns with a dazzling collection of stories within stories that draw on old myths to embody the heartache and memories of Asian American women. ![]()
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