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Holding pattern / Jenny Xie.

Xie, Jenny, (author.).

Summary:

"Holding Pattern is a novel about immigration and belonging, mother-daughter relationships, and the many ways we can learn to hold each other. At 28, Kathleen Cheng returns home to live with her single mother, Marissa, an immigrant from China. Her mother, to Katheen's surprise, is in love, and Kathleen helps her mother plan her wedding to a tech entrepreneur. Kathleen takes a job working for an unusual start-up, and as mother and daughter peel back the layers of their history, they come to a new understanding of how they can propel each other forward, and what they've done to hold each other back"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593539705 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 280 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2023.
Subject: Chinese Americans > Fiction.
Chinese > United States > Fiction.
Immigrants > United States > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Weddings > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Jenny Xie is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. Originally from Shanghai, she graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned her MFA at Johns Hopkins University. Her work has appeared in AGNI, Ninth Letter, Joyland, Narrative, and the Best of the Net Anthology. Jenny is the recipient of a Bread Loaf scholarship and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Loghaven. She is a contributing writer for Architectural Digest, Apartment Therapy, and Dwell, where she was the executive editor.


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