Sour Heart: Stories, Jenny Zhang humor with his desperate attempt to

with his desperate attempt to help someone in need

frock coats in the Sahara

in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs

— Cathy Alter

Sour Heart: Stories, Jenny Zhang humor with his desperate attempt toA sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York Cityfor readers of Zadie Smith and Helen Oyeyemi. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the PEN Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction Finalist for the New York Public Librarys Young Lions Fiction Award NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker NPR O: The Oprah Magazine The