WEIKE WANG is a graduate of Harvard University, where she earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry and her doctorate in public health. She received her MFA from Boston University. Her fiction has been published in or is forthcoming from Alaska Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, The Journal, Ploughshares, Redivider, and SmokeLong Quarterly.
Three years into her graduate studies at a demanding Boston university, the unnamed narrator of this nimbly wry, concise debut finds her one-time love for chemistry is more hypothesis than reality. She's tormented by her failed research--and reminded of her delays by her peers, her advisor, and most of all by her Chinese parents, who have always expected nothing short of excellence from her throughout her life. But there's another, nonscientific question looming: the marriage proposal from her devoted boyfriend, a fellow scientist, whose path through academia has been relatively free of obstacles, and with whom she can't make a life before finding success on her own. Eventually, the pressure mounts so high that she must leave everything she thought she knew about her future, and herself, behind. And for the first time, she's confronted with a question she won't find the answer to in a textbook: What do I really want? Over the next two years, this winningly flawed, disarmingly insightful heroine learns the formulas and equations for a different kind of chemistry--one in which the reactions can't be quantified, measured, and analyzed; one that can be studied only in the mysterious language of the heart. Taking us deep inside her scattered, searching mind, here is a brilliant new literary voice that astutely juxtaposes the elegance of science, the anxieties of finding a place in the world, and the sacrifices made for love and family.
A very sensitive confession from a young women. The reading experience is especially delightful because I could catch all the puns and metaphors!
评分170613 12 號被推薦,13 號讀完。這本書讀起來太感同身受,看哭瞭少說也有五六次,在地鐵上流眼淚流得我都不好意思瞭,真是沒法評價。同時我很生氣後麵的 recommanded reading list 居然有 maxine hong kingston 的 the wom
评分每個字都感同身受. 作者是世上更有纔華的一個我
评分聰明 刻薄 懦弱 敏感 猶豫 不是一本控訴的書 棲身在學術共同體下 作為標簽的身份“華裔”“女性”都是無趣無用的 不願放低標準 卻也沒有明確的選擇 我們首先麵對的 還是作為一個人的掙紮
评分比起最早看的New Yorker上麵的短篇,中篇小說不夠擊中我 但還是很多共鳴,有的時候想想這類根深蒂固的asian concept是不是從一開始就讓人fucked up瞭呢
本站所有內容均為互聯網搜索引擎提供的公開搜索信息,本站不存儲任何數據與內容,任何內容與數據均與本站無關,如有需要請聯繫相關搜索引擎包括但不限於百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 qciss.net All Rights Reserved. 小哈圖書下載中心 版权所有