num_pages: 288
description: A witty warm and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship sexuality identity and heartbreak over two decades.Best friends since second grade Fiona Lin and Jane Shen explore the lonely freeways and seedy bars of Los Angeles together through their teenage years surviving unfulfilling romantic encounters and carrying with them the scars of their families' tumultuous pasts. Fiona was always destined to leave her effortless beauty burnished by fierce ambition--qualities that Jane admired and feared in equal measure. When Fiona moves to New York and cares for a sick friend through a breakup with an opportunistic boyfriend Jane remains in California and grieves her estranged father's sudden death in the process alienating an overzealous girlfriend. Strained by distance and unintended betrayals the women float in and out of each other's lives their friendship both a beacon of home and a reminder of all they've lost.In stories told in alternating voices Jean Chen Ho's debut collection peels back the layers of female friendship--the intensity resentment and boundless love--to probe the beating hearts of young women coming to terms with themselves and each other in light of the insecurities and shame that holds them back.Spanning countries and selves Fiona and Jane is an intimate portrait of a friendship a deep dive into the universal perplexities of being young and alive and a bracingly honest account of two Asian women who dare to stake a claim on joy in a changing contemporary America.
language: English
title: Fiona and Jane
publisher: Viking