These seven meandering stories are loosely connected for no reason other than to provide a false sense of relevance. Yet Sour Heart raises no expectations and makes no promises, and thus delivers – drivel. She plows through the hardships of the old and new world, poverty, self-harm and sexual awakening as if she’s had a checklist of themes she needed to tick off. I have a thing for reading debut publications, and was initially intrigued by Sour Heart and what Jenny Zhang had to say about the immigrant experience. We hope to see them sticking out of purses and riding public transportation everywhere. Lenny books will aspire to push the ball forward on the issues that matter to our audience, with wit and style. Self-proclaimed voracious readers, the duo tout Lenny Books with the following mission statement: It’s also the first publication by Lenny Books, a Random House imprint run by Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner. The collection of short stories is composed of several loosely interlinked tales centered around the lives of Chinese-American teenage girls in New York City. With Sour Heart, poet Jenny Zhang is making her prose debut.
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