EAN: 9780593296042

FIONA AND JANE - JEAN CHEN HO GEBUNDEN

A witty  warm  and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women
as they navigate friendship  sexuality  identity  and heartbreak over two decades. Best friends
since second grade  Fiona Lin and Jane Shen explore the lonely freeways and seedy bars of Los
Angeles together through their teenage years  surviving unfulfilling romantic encounters  and
carrying with them the scars of their families' tumultuous pasts. Fiona was always destined to
leave  her effortless beauty burnished by fierce ambition-qualities that Jane admired and
feared in equal measure. When Fiona moves to New York and cares for a sick friend through a
breakup with an opportunistic boyfriend  Jane remains in California and grieves her estranged
father's sudden death  in the process alienating an overzealous girlfriend. Strained by
distance and unintended betrayals  the women float in and out of each other's lives  their
friendship both a beacon of home and a reminder of all they've lost. In stories told in
alternating voices  Jean Chen Ho's debut collection peels back the layers of female
friendship-the intensity  resentment  and boundless love-to probe the beating hearts of young
women coming to terms with themselves  and each other  in light of the insecurities and shame
that holds them back. Spanning countries and selves  Fiona and Jane is an intimate portrait of
a friendship  a deep dive into the universal perplexities of being young and alive  and a
bracingly honest account of two Asian women who dare to stake a claim on joy in a changing 
contemporary America.

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