Letters written by Ama, the grandmother who was the first to come to the USA together with her husband, begin to appear from the holes in the garden – Daughter translates them and puts together a traumatic past. Soon after, Daughter falls in love with Ben, a young, rebellious emigrant from China who is more of a bird than a tiger. This may be a sign that she was marked by the tiger goddess Hu Gu Po. Our guide for most of this journey is Daughter, a third-generation immigrant, who wakes up one morning with a tiger’s tail. But the geographical reality for the most part of the book, seem to be irrelevant here – their stories sound as if they are myths in themselves, fantastic tales of monsters, ghosts and magical phenomena, happening in an unspecified place and time. The debut novel by the poet K-Ming Chang is a daring attempt to tell the story of three generations of women from a Taiwanese family who emigrated to the USA.
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