The Heart's Traffic

Ching-In Chen


Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
4.50 · 2 ratings · 120 pages · Published: 15 Jan 2009

The Heart's Traffic by Ching-In Chen
This novel-in-poems chronicles the life of Xiaomei, an immigrant girl haunted by the death of her best friend. Told through a kaleidoscopic braid of stories, letters, and riddles, this stunning debut collection follows Xiaomei's life as she grows into her sexuality and searches for a way to deal with her complicated histories.

At times, meditation, celebration, investigation, and elegy, this is a book about personal transformation within the context of a family forced to make do—a Makeshift Family—and how one might create new language to name the New World.

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