3 Quotes & Sayings By Jenny Zhang

Jenny is the author of two critically acclaimed collections of short stories, Sour Heart and Lemonade, which have been translated into over fifteen languages. Her first novel, The New York Times bestseller Sour Heart, has been optioned by Fox 2000. Her second novel, Lemonade, received the 2017 Asian American Literary Award for Fiction.

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Maybe we would grow apart, he would develop a personality that I would know nothing about, we would start our families, have children of our own, and there would come a point when in thinking about 'family' we would think of the ones we made, not the ones we were from. Jenny Zhang
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Asian American success is often presented as something of a horror - robotic, unfeeling machines psychotically hellbent on excelling, products of abusive tiger parenting who care only about test scores and perfection, driven to succeed without even knowing why. Jenny Zhang