shakespeare and Company

300 short stories: story 256

Samantha Neugebauer

June 10, 2019

story: “Our Mothers Before Them” author: Jenny Zhang, who I stumbled upon at Shakespeare & Company last summer in Paris year: 2017 where: Abu Dhabi note: From the NYer, “Sour Heart is a feminist bildungsroman—the narrators act upon their world just as much as the world acts upon them—and it depicts, from start to finish, a…

2019 short stories

Abu Dhabi, Jenny Zhang, long short story, Mothers and Daughters, Paris, shakespeare and Company, Sour Heart, UAE
300 short stories:: story 143

Samantha Neugebauer

August 26, 2018

story: Why Were They Throwing Bricks? author: Jenny Zhang year: 2017 where: the gold sofa note: I bought this book on a whim after stumbling upon the author reading at Shakespeare and Company in Paris this July. a line: “I was old enough to understand how one of trauma’s many possible effects was to make the traumatized person…

2018 short stories

Abu Dhabi, Jenny Zhang, literary quote, literary quotes, literature, Paris, shakespeare and Company, Short Stories, short story, UAE, Why Were They Throwing Bricks?