Ingratitude
by Ying Chen, Carol Volk
Category: Fiction

Yan-Zi has been dominated by her mother for all of her life--so Yan-Zi decides to commit suicide in order to shake off the yoke of her mother's love. In this novel she tells the story of her last days with a cool, cruel detachment that recalls Camus's The Stranger. A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year 1998.