About this item
Highlights
- Coping with the death of her cousin, Mei abandons her life in the city to live in his now empty house in a small town.
- Author(s): Jia Qing Wilson-Yang
- 176 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Asian American
Description
Book Synopsis
Coping with the death of her cousin, Mei abandons her life in the city to live in his now empty house in a small town. There she connects with his history as well as her own, learns about her aunt's long-term secret relationship, and reflects on the trans women she has left behind.
Small Beauty explores the protagonist's transness, but it also tenderly yet bitterly unpacks her experiences as a mixed-race person of Chinese descent, cycles of death and loss, and queer and intergenerational community. Small Beauty wanders through isolation, and then breaks it.
Review Quotes
"A quiet, gorgeous meditation on grief, race, and community." -Morgan Page, Lambda Literary
Wilson-Yang's spare prose unearths its quiet heroine's inner world with meticulous exactitude."Every moment of this novel felt like real life, in a way that felt both unremarkable and extraordinary at the same time." -Casey the Lesbrarian
Shipping details
Return details
Guests also viewed
Discover more options
