The Unfairness of Feeling

When I was five, I staged a suicide with some ketchup and a butter knife. My mom made me wear a pair of underwear that “felt funny,” and already versed in my outbursts over shoes, socks, turtlenecks, and panties, she paid my…

Someone Else’s Skin

by Gina Frangello

Writing About The Hyphen

Peter Ho Davies on Chineseness, fictionalizing real people, and his new novel The Fortunes

In a rave review of The Fortunes by Peter Ho Davies, NPR’s Michael Schaub says, “Davies writes with a rare emotional resonance and a deft sense of structure; it’s hard not to be in awe of the way he’s composed this complex, beautiful novel. The Fortunes is a stunning look at what it means to be Chinese, what it means…