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“The Strawberry Years” – about a young man named Yang who is tasked with looking after a famous actress, only to have her refuse to leave and end up overtaking his life. This one captured the ubiquitous influence of social media perfectly, which I found absolutely fascinating. “Vaulting the Sea” – a coming-of-age story about two synchronized divers on the verge of finding success at the Olympics. This was a beautifully rendered story that I felt was the most real in the way it dealt with the characters’ emotions and relationships. With this, you’ll never be short on medicine no matter what happens and will always have a way left to help yourself or a loved one in need.
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Without them, a simple cold can quickly turn into a deadly pneumonia, an infection in a small cut can become life threatening. So, pay close attention to this chapter before you throw away your so called “expired” medication. Inside the Home Doctor, you’ll also learn about the biggest medical mistakes you can make in a blackout and what to do with important medications that require refrigeration, like insulin or Humira. Dr. Maybell is known for developing new, ingenious methods of treating patients after Venezuela's economy collapsed and hospitals and pharmacies ran out of medicines, supplies, electricity and running water.
I don’t typically like short stories cuz they feel like one night stands- weirdly intimate but always leaving me hanging. This is a collection that short story readers will delight in. Lost immigrants in America, lost young adults in materialistic China, lost second generation immigrant kids between two cultures, no emotional connections between humans. Without a single happy end for any of the characters, these stories leave you decidedly disenchanted with the world.
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I could relate to this narrator, finding the universality in the specificity of their dilemmas, without finding them to be self-pitying . Cosmetic products—such as creams, lotions and toners—and skin tightening procedures have a proven efficacy in restoring skin elasticity. Home remedies offer a solution for those preferring a more natural approach, however, the efficacy of skin tightening home remedies is temporary at best. A number of at-home skin tightening machines are available on the market. Many at-home devices use radio frequency energy to stimulate collagen production and tighten sagging skin.
What sets them apart is Juliana Wang’s surprising imagination, able to capture the innermost thoughts of her characters with astonishing empathy, as well as the contradictions of the modern immigrant experience in a way that feels almost universal. Home Remedies is, in the words of Alexander Chee, "the arrival of an urgent and necessary literary voice we’ve been needing, waiting for maybe, without knowing." Leading readers through the sections of “Family”, “Love” and “Time and Space”, Wang shows her versatility in form and voice, demonstrating how internal migration within the mainland is changing Chinese society too. Through a series of short vignettes, “Days of Being Mild” introduces us to Beijing’s Bei Piao—newcomers to the city with “uncertain dreams but our goal is to burn white-hot, to prove that the Chinese, too, can be decadent and reckless”. They certainly can in this short story, and another that appears to be its companion of sorts, “Fuerdai to the Max”.
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But under no circumstance should you take them without consulting a doctor first. In Venezuela, electricity has turned into a rare and unpredictable commodity. They don’t have it all the time, and blackouts have become a normal part of daily life. In case you haven’t realized it yet, most of the medical supplies and pills we take for granted come from China and India.
What drew me the most to Home Remedies was its cover , and while I wasn't expecting to like every single story, I hoped that I would find a few to be memorable. In twelve stunning stories of love, family, and identity, Xuan Juliana Wang’s debut collection captures the unheard voices of an emerging generation. Young, reckless, and catapulted toward uncertain futures, here is the new face of Chinese youth on a quest for every kind of freedom.
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The 12 stories in Xuan Juliana Wang’s remarkable debut collection capture the unheard voices of a new generation of Chinese youth. A generation for whom the Cultural Revolution is a distant memory, WeChat is king, and life glitters with the possibility of love, travel, technology, and, above all, new identities. For best results, at-home skin tightening remedies should make use of cosmetic products and natural ingredients with a proven history that encourages collagen production and reduces the effects of harmful free radical molecules. A stunning debut short story collection that is about so much more than just the young Chinese voices it captures. Wang’s voice is strong and distinct, different in every story, which is quite a feat of its own. I felt each of the characters inhabiting the pages, almost as if they could have held their own novel instead of just fifteen to twenty pages.
Whether at home or abroad, her stories catch their characters at the threshold of bold and uncertain futures, navigating between their cultural heritage and the chaos of contemporary life. In a crowded apartment on Mott Street, an immigrant family raises its first real Americans. At the Beijing Olympics, a pair of synchronized divers stand poised at the edge of success and self-discovery. And on a snowless New York evening, a father creates an algorithm to troubleshoot the problem of raising a daughter across an ever-widening gulf of cultures and generations.
Though some of the stories’ narrative momentum can’t match the consistently excellent characters, nonetheless Wang proves herself a promising writer with a delightfully playful voice and an uncanny ability to evoke empathy, nostalgia, and wonder. What we have here, in simple terms, is a collection of short stories written by a Chinese-American author. We consistently see tales of emigration--families, children, students, hustlers, and others leaving China to restart their lives in the United States--and what that feels like for all involved.
But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace - and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox - possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami.
When she wakes up the next morning she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her 16th birthday. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt.
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