{"product_id":"tomb-sweeping-stories-isbn-9780062951847","title":"Tomb Sweeping: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA playful and deeply affective short story collection about the histories, technologies, and generational divides that shape our relationships—from the award-winning writer of \u003cem\u003eDays of Distraction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCompelling and perceptive, \u003cem\u003eTomb Sweeping \u003c\/em\u003eprobes the loyalties we hold: to relatives, to strangers, and to ourselves. In stories set across the US and Asia, Alexandra Chang immerses us in the lives of immigrant families, grocery store employees, expecting parents, and guileless lab assistants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\tA woman known only to her neighbors as “the Asian recycling lady” collects bottles from the streets she calls home. A young college grad ponders the void left from a broken friendship. An unfulfilled housewife in Shanghai finds a secret outlet for her ambitions in an undercover gambling den. Two strangers become something more through the bond of mistaken identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\tThese characters, adeptly attuned to the mystery of living, invite us to consider whether it is possible for anyone to entirely do right by another. \u003cem\u003eTomb Sweeping\u003c\/em\u003e brims with remarkable skill and talent in every story, keeping a definitive pulse on loss, community, and what it means to feel fully alive. With her debut story collection, Chang further establishes herself as “a writer to watch” (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Chang writes deftly about the wonder and volatility of becoming. In \u003cem\u003eTomb Sweeping\u003c\/em\u003e, family (or lineage) is a matter of both predestiny and aberration.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRaven Leilani, author of Luster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Alexandra Chang’s stories reveal humanity through the mundane. As the title of the collection suggests, \u003cem\u003eTomb Sweeping\u003c\/em\u003e is a nod to forbears, a meditation of our estranged ancestors, faults and all, who have stumbled before us.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNorthwest Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Some stories are funny, some are more poignant, others bizarre, and many are a delightful combination. Read after getting that flight confirmation email.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRead Reciepts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Riveting. . . . These stories examine the dream of wealth and success, as characters wrestle with conflicting desires of connection and independence.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A haunting exploration of relationships that examines the deep bonds and disappointments of family and modern life…. [Chang’s] deft skills are coupled with a fearlessness in investigating the awkward and uncomfortable spaces between people…. Within these pages there is also humor and love.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShondaland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Each of these pieces offers a hint of humor and a dose (small or large) of haunt. . . .Each story investigates and celebrates the question of knowing, just like the tomb-sweeping holiday does. For what do we really know? And how can we ever know? Chang’s genius is in the gaps that leave us pondering.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook Report Network\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The best of Chang’s stories possess an unsentimental, fable-like quietude...wherein the strangeness of relationships, particularly familial bonds, are scrutinized through a lens of equally strange, rose-tinted nihilism. Other stories by Chang resemble, in their handling of dialogue and power, the works of American literary cult figure Jane Bowles. . . . Chang’s characters, armed with college degrees in rhetoric and razor-sharp self-awareness, are as difficult as they are endearing. . . . The accelerated present Chang offers helps us see where fever dreams might lead, or at least that we’re not alone in having them.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Alexandra Chang is a riveting and exciting presence in our literature. Her stories are honest, insightful, bold, and full of heart.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Saunders, author of Liberation Day\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Haunting and mesmerizing; it’s only after you finish reading Alexandra Chang's \u003cem\u003eTomb Sweeping\u003c\/em\u003e that you realize there were so many gaps in you that her stories were destined to fill. A marvelous collection.”  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJason Mott, National Book Award–winning author of Hell of a Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Following her phenomenal debut novel, \u003cem\u003eDays of Distraction\u003c\/em\u003e, Chang returns with \u003cem\u003eTomb Sweeping\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of inventive, affecting, and delightfully strange stories featuring humble characters across China and the US who navigate daily disappointments, work mundanities, and unlikely encounters. Whether set in rundown homes or an illegal gambling den, these stories reveal the high stakes of even the smallest personal dramas, and the ways we seek out comfort as we go through them.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Compelling and compulsively readable, \u003cem\u003eTomb Sweeping \u003c\/em\u003ereveals that Chang is a writer who’s only just beginning to show readers her impressive range. Subtle wisdom runs rampant through these pages.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Chang (\u003cem\u003eDays of Distraction\u003c\/em\u003e) explores the meaning of home in her powerful and delightfully strange debut collection. . . . Chang’s distinctive style and wry tone bring her characters to startling life, all the while rendering the pain of their loneliness and desire for stability in stark relief. This is a triumph.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Arresting. . . Chang’s sharp observations again transform her fiction into bitingly acute truths.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTerry Hong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890452590821,"sku":"NP9780062951847","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780062951847.jpg?v=1730233313","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/tomb-sweeping-stories-isbn-9780062951847","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}