WEIKE WANG is a graduate of Harvard University, where she earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry and her doctorate in public health. She received her MFA from Boston University. Her fiction has been published in or is forthcoming from Alaska Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, The Journal, Ploughshares, Redivider, and SmokeLong Quarterly.
Three years into her graduate studies at a demanding Boston university, the unnamed narrator of this nimbly wry, concise debut finds her one-time love for chemistry is more hypothesis than reality. She's tormented by her failed research--and reminded of her delays by her peers, her advisor, and most of all by her Chinese parents, who have always expected nothing short of excellence from her throughout her life. But there's another, nonscientific question looming: the marriage proposal from her devoted boyfriend, a fellow scientist, whose path through academia has been relatively free of obstacles, and with whom she can't make a life before finding success on her own. Eventually, the pressure mounts so high that she must leave everything she thought she knew about her future, and herself, behind. And for the first time, she's confronted with a question she won't find the answer to in a textbook: What do I really want? Over the next two years, this winningly flawed, disarmingly insightful heroine learns the formulas and equations for a different kind of chemistry--one in which the reactions can't be quantified, measured, and analyzed; one that can be studied only in the mysterious language of the heart. Taking us deep inside her scattered, searching mind, here is a brilliant new literary voice that astutely juxtaposes the elegance of science, the anxieties of finding a place in the world, and the sacrifices made for love and family.
170613 12 号被推荐,13 号读完。这本书读起来太感同身受,看哭了少说也有五六次,在地铁上流眼泪流得我都不好意思了,真是没法评价。同时我很生气后面的 recommanded reading list 居然有 maxine hong kingston 的 the wom
评分每个字都感同身受. 作者是世上更有才华的一个我
评分要对看心理医生的女主产生共鸣当然容易:博士生涯萌生退意、和第一代移民的严父慈母太多隔阂、无法感知表达爱意最终逼走男友。亚裔文学中的affectlessness恰好是连接作品和读者的affective trope。
评分读得好伤心,很多共鸣但也庆幸自己比故事里的她敢接受幸福一些。
评分写了一条短评,被删了,醉了,主要表达的意思是不懂为什么她父母亲那么早就知道移民但是对待孩子的方式依然很中国式
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