02096cam a2200313 i 4500 1164852383 TxAuBib 20201211120000.0 191022s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019040853 9780593132586 $27.00 0593132580 $27.00 DLC eng rda DLC NjBwBT GCmBT UtOrBLW TxAuBib rda Chang, Kristin, author. Bestiary : a novel / K-Ming Chang. First edition. New York : One World, [2020] 259 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "One evening, Ma tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body, named Hu Gu Po. She hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterwards, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. And more mysterious events follow: Holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother; a visiting aunt leaves red on everything she touches; another aunt arrives with eels in her belly. All the while, Daughter is falling for her neighbor, a girl named Ben with mysterious powers of her own. As the two young lovers translate the grandmother's letters, Daughter begins to understand that each woman in her family embodies an old Taiwanese myth--and that she will have to bring her family's secrets to light in order to change their destiny. With a poetic voice of crackling electricity, K Ming Chang is an explosive young writer who combines the wit and fabulism of Helen Oyeyemi with the magical realist aesthetic of Maxine Hong Kingston. Tracing one family's history from Mainland China to Taiwan, from Arkansas to California, Bestiary is a novel of migration, queer lineages, and womanhood"-- Provided by publisher. 20201211. Taiwanese Americans Fiction. Lesbians Fiction. Mythology, Asian Fiction. Magic realist fiction. TXKIP