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A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother, who meet in postwar Germany and settle in New York City. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, the narrator 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 A yearning homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet-these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.
From the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, A Feather on the Breath of God , is a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love. With a new introduction by Susan Choi, the National Book Award-winning author of Trust
Sigrid Nunez is the author of the novels A Feather on the Breath of God , The Last of Her Kind , The Friend , and What Are You Going Through , among others. She is also the author of Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag . She has been the recipient of several awards, including the National Book Aw
