Books like A Feather on the Breath of God by Sigrid Nunez
In this novel, a young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother who meet in post-war Germany and settle in New York. The narrator's imagination is shaped by her parents' stories and their own experiences, as she grows up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s. The story explores themes of love, identity, and the tension between the old and the new in the post-war era.
First publish date: 1995
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Sigrid Nunez
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