num_pages: 240
description: With a deceptively simple yet graceful style, and in the tradition of Lara Vapnyar, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Gish Jen, Frances Hwang captures the thousand minor battles waged in the homes of immigrants -- struggles to preserve timehonored traditions or break free of them, to maintain authority or challenge it, and to take advantage of modern excesses without diluting one's ethnic identity.In Garden City , a weary Chinese couple, struggling to evict their deadbeat tenant, is forced to face the aftermath of their teenage son's death from cancer. And in The Old Gentleman , a daughter becomes alienated from her father when he finds love -- or what he thinks could be love -- in his old age. Frances Hwang is a powerful talent, and Transparency not only showcases her myriad gifts, but also announces the arrival of an exciting new voice.
language: English
title: Transparency: Stories
titlecomplete: Transparency: Stories
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, American
ratings_count: 80
awards: awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: PEN Open Book Award
publisher: Back Bay Books