Mothers have always held such symbolic weight in determining a person's worth. Your mother tongue, your motherland, your mother's values - these… — Jenny Zhang American dream Copy Share Image
I know I am not the first woman to ask this, but how can I be both damaged and loveable? How do… — Jenny Zhang How Copy Share Image
When I was a graduate student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for fiction writing, I felt both coveted and hated. My white… — Jenny Zhang American Copy Share Image
I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think… — Jenny Zhang Books Copy Share Image
It's weird for me to say I'm lucky when I can't go into a bookstore and have more than five choices if… — Jenny Zhang Choices Copy Share Image
People who have very devastating lives sometimes have the most wild, avant-garde humor. It's like when you've seen it all and been… — Jenny Zhang Humor Copy Share Image
Faced with ostracization at school and confinement at home, I turned to karaoke. — Jenny Zhang Confinement Copy Share Image
Growing up, I had to cobble together a scarecrow of things I loved from various different writers. — Jenny Zhang Growing up Copy Share Image
I'm surely not the only one to notice we employ metaphors to make sense of the news. I always like to take… — Jenny Zhang Always Copy Share Image
When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese. — Jenny Zhang First Copy Share Image
“Maybe we would grow apart, he would develop a personality that I would know nothing about, we would start our families, have… — Jenny Zhang Brother Copy Share Image
'Sour Heart' is a collection of seven linked short stories narrated by young Chinese-American girls living in New York City in the… — Jenny Zhang Body Copy Share Image
