Home Remedies was named as one of the Most Anticipated Books of by Nylon, Electric Literature, The Millions, and LitHub, and one of the Best Books of the Season by Elle, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast, and New York Observer. She currently teaches creative writing at UCLA/5(85). By Jackie on . The stories in Home Remedies were so enjoyable. This is the type of book you want to read and enjoy slowly, and really take in. Xuan Juliana Wang does a phenomenal job bringing the characters to life. As an Asian American, I felt these stories were so real and relatable. · Home Remedies by Xuan Juliana Wang. Here’s what Publishers Weekly had to say about Home Remedies: “Wang’s formidable imagination is on full display in this wide-ranging debut collection about modern Chinese youth. Her characters include artistic and aimless year-olds eking out a living shooting subversive music videos for bands in Beijing (‘Days of Being Mild’); a Chinese .
Xuan Juliana Wang: Home Remedies. Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. "Filled with characters who mirror the chaos and anxiety, exhilaration and despair, desire and fear of the world around them, Home Remedies offers searing portraits of millennial Chinese immigrants. Home Remedies by Xuan Juliana Wang | Cherry Shoes. Home Remedies by Xuan Juliana Wang is a collection of incredibly moving short stories oscillating between depressing, funny, tragic, and cringy.. There is a lot going on in this little book. The short stories in Home Remedies are divided up into three sections: Family, Love, Time and Space. The first story does a great job setting the tone of. HOME REMEDIES. by Xuan Juliana Wang ‧ RELEASE DATE: . In her debut, Wang examines the difficulties of immigration as sources of pain, connection, and confusion between friends, family, and would-be lovers.
In this book excerpt from ‘Home Remedies’ by Xuan Juliana Wang, the author writes about time, creative compromises, and the allure of an ex-boyfriend. “Future Cat” tells the story of Maggie, who’s impatient with the ways her life feels stagnant. Wang plays with form as well, as in “Home Remedies for Non-Life-Threatening Ailments,” written as a catalogue of such ailments as “Inappropriate Feelings” and “Bilingual Heartache,” or “Algorithm Problem Solving for Father-Daughter Relationships,” which allows a computer science–minded Chinese immigrant father to apply his discipline’s techniques to his relationship with his second-generation Chinese-American daughter. Home Remedies by Xuan Juliana Wang. Here’s what Publishers Weekly had to say about Home Remedies: “Wang’s formidable imagination is on full display in this wide-ranging debut collection about modern Chinese youth. Her characters include artistic and aimless year-olds eking out a living shooting subversive music videos for bands in Beijing (‘Days of Being Mild’); a Chinese-American girl in Paris, who finds her life changed when she begins wearing a dead girl’s clothes (‘Echo.
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