![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tracing one family's history from Taiwan to America, Bestiary is a lyrical and electrifying novel of migration, queer lineages and girlhood. With a poetic voice of crackling electricity, K-Ming Chang is an explosive young writer who combines the wit and fabulism of Helen Oyeyemi with the magical realist aesthetic of Maxine Hong Kingston. Not ordering to the United States Click here. Expected delivery to the United States in 6-11 business days. She will have to bring her family's secrets to light in order to change their destiny. Bestiary : A Novel 3.45 (2,883 ratings by Goodreads) Paperback English By (author) K-ming Chang US21.05 Also available in Hardback US25.85 Free delivery worldwide Available. As the two young lovers translate the grandmother's letters and the myths that surround them, Daughter must reckon with how deep these stories are buried within her, and what power is rising, violently, through her. Soon afterwards, Daughter wakes with a tiger tail.Īnd more mysterious events follow: holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her estranged grandmother a visiting aunt arrives with red hands and snakes in her belly her brother tests the possibility of flight.Īll the while, Daughter is falling for Ben, a neighbourhood girl who is more bird than tiger and has mysterious stories of her own. It's one of many stories Daughter absorbs from the women in her family, about gourd daughters, buried gold and rabbit moons. Her name was Hu Gu Po and she paid the price for her body in hunger. One evening, Mother tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body. ![]()
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