num_pages: 192
description: From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God : a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and loveA young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.
language: English
title: A Feather on the Breath of God
titlecomplete: A Feather on the Breath of God
genres: American, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult Fiction, Race, Family, Fiction, Relationships, Contemporary
ratings_count: 1420
publisher: Picador