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A Feather on the Breath of God
A Feather on the Breath of God
Author: Sigrid Nunez
A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents’ stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning homesick mother, a si...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781250816238
ISBN-10: 1250816238
Publication Date: 8/31/2021
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Picador Paper
Book Type: Paperback
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This strange, lucid story of the unwished-for child of unassimilated immigrants takes us well beyond the particulars of "mixed ethnicity"--beyond even the experience of America--into deep paradoxes of identity and love. Both old-fashioned and subversive, stringent and redemptive, it's a pleasure from the first page to the last.


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