Author: Jenny Zhang
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1947793918
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020 A Best Read of 2020 at Ms. Magazine "To read Jenny Zhang is to embrace primal states: pleasure, hunger, longing and rage." —TIME Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce women to their violations, traumas, and body parts. She questions the way we feminize and racialize nurturing, and live in service of other people’s dreams. How we idealize birth and being baby, how it’s only in our mothers’ wombs that we’re still considered innocent, blameless, and undamaged, because it’s only then that we don’t have to earn love. Her poems explore the obscenity of patriarchy, whiteness, and capitalism, the violence of rescue and heroism. The magic trick in My Baby First Birthday is that despite all these themes, the book never feels like some jeremiad. Zhang uses friendship as a lyric. She seeks tenderness, radiant beauty, and having love for your mistakes. Through all this, she writes about being alone—really alone, like why-was-I-ever-born alone—and trying, despite everything, to reach out and touch something—skin to skin, animal to animal.
My Baby First Birthday
Author: Jenny Zhang
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1947793918
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020 A Best Read of 2020 at Ms. Magazine "To read Jenny Zhang is to embrace primal states: pleasure, hunger, longing and rage." —TIME Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce women to their violations, traumas, and body parts. She questions the way we feminize and racialize nurturing, and live in service of other people’s dreams. How we idealize birth and being baby, how it’s only in our mothers’ wombs that we’re still considered innocent, blameless, and undamaged, because it’s only then that we don’t have to earn love. Her poems explore the obscenity of patriarchy, whiteness, and capitalism, the violence of rescue and heroism. The magic trick in My Baby First Birthday is that despite all these themes, the book never feels like some jeremiad. Zhang uses friendship as a lyric. She seeks tenderness, radiant beauty, and having love for your mistakes. Through all this, she writes about being alone—really alone, like why-was-I-ever-born alone—and trying, despite everything, to reach out and touch something—skin to skin, animal to animal.
Publisher: Tin House Books
ISBN: 1947793918
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020 A Best Read of 2020 at Ms. Magazine "To read Jenny Zhang is to embrace primal states: pleasure, hunger, longing and rage." —TIME Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce women to their violations, traumas, and body parts. She questions the way we feminize and racialize nurturing, and live in service of other people’s dreams. How we idealize birth and being baby, how it’s only in our mothers’ wombs that we’re still considered innocent, blameless, and undamaged, because it’s only then that we don’t have to earn love. Her poems explore the obscenity of patriarchy, whiteness, and capitalism, the violence of rescue and heroism. The magic trick in My Baby First Birthday is that despite all these themes, the book never feels like some jeremiad. Zhang uses friendship as a lyric. She seeks tenderness, radiant beauty, and having love for your mistakes. Through all this, she writes about being alone—really alone, like why-was-I-ever-born alone—and trying, despite everything, to reach out and touch something—skin to skin, animal to animal.
Disney Baby My First Birthday
Author: Disney Book Group
Publisher: Disney Press
ISBN: 9781368053884
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A baby's first birthday is a special celebration to be remembered! Filled with all sorts of birthday fun for little ones, this engaging board book with touch-and-feel elements introduces Baby to all the wonderful delights of a birthday party!
Publisher: Disney Press
ISBN: 9781368053884
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A baby's first birthday is a special celebration to be remembered! Filled with all sorts of birthday fun for little ones, this engaging board book with touch-and-feel elements introduces Baby to all the wonderful delights of a birthday party!
My First Birthday
Author: Editor
Publisher: WorthyKids
ISBN: 9780824919993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This cheerful collection of colorful images and simple words provides the perfect introduction to the fun and festive symbols of a birthday celebration. Included are words such as candle, cake, gift, and balloon. The little size and sturdy pages make this sweet book perfect for little hands.
Publisher: WorthyKids
ISBN: 9780824919993
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This cheerful collection of colorful images and simple words provides the perfect introduction to the fun and festive symbols of a birthday celebration. Included are words such as candle, cake, gift, and balloon. The little size and sturdy pages make this sweet book perfect for little hands.
You Were Born on Your Very First Birthday
Author: Linda Walvoord Girard
Publisher: Albert Whitman and Company
ISBN: 9780807594568
Category : Childbirth
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes the life of a tiny baby in his safe, warm, floating place during the nine months before he is born.
Publisher: Albert Whitman and Company
ISBN: 9780807594568
Category : Childbirth
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes the life of a tiny baby in his safe, warm, floating place during the nine months before he is born.
Dessert For Two: Small Batch Cookies, Brownies, Pies, and Cakes
Author: Christina Lane
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 158157617X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Dessert for Two takes well-loved desserts and scales them down to make only two servings! Who doesn't love towering three-layer cakes with mounds of fluffy buttercream? Who can resist four dozen cookies fresh from the oven? Wouldn't you love to stick your spoon into a big bowl of banana pudding? But what about the leftovers? Dessert recipes typically serve eight to ten people. Finding the willpower to resist extra slices of cake can be difficult; the battle between leftover cookies and a healthy breakfast is over before it starts. Until now. Dessert for Two takes well-loved desserts and scales them down to make only two servings. Cakes are baked in small pans and ramekins. Pies are baked in small pie pans or muffin cups. Cookie recipes are scaled down to make 1 dozen or fewer. Your favorite bars—brownies, blondies, and marshmallow–rice cereal treats—are baked in a loaf pan, which easily serves two when cut across the middle. Newly married couples and empty-nesters will be particularly enthralled with this miniature dessert guide. To everyone who lives alone: now you can have your own personal-sized cake and eat it, too.
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 158157617X
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Dessert for Two takes well-loved desserts and scales them down to make only two servings! Who doesn't love towering three-layer cakes with mounds of fluffy buttercream? Who can resist four dozen cookies fresh from the oven? Wouldn't you love to stick your spoon into a big bowl of banana pudding? But what about the leftovers? Dessert recipes typically serve eight to ten people. Finding the willpower to resist extra slices of cake can be difficult; the battle between leftover cookies and a healthy breakfast is over before it starts. Until now. Dessert for Two takes well-loved desserts and scales them down to make only two servings. Cakes are baked in small pans and ramekins. Pies are baked in small pie pans or muffin cups. Cookie recipes are scaled down to make 1 dozen or fewer. Your favorite bars—brownies, blondies, and marshmallow–rice cereal treats—are baked in a loaf pan, which easily serves two when cut across the middle. Newly married couples and empty-nesters will be particularly enthralled with this miniature dessert guide. To everyone who lives alone: now you can have your own personal-sized cake and eat it, too.
My 1st Birthday Guest Book
Author: Cute Notebooks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781546898412
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Never forget the names of your special guests with this First Birthday Guest Book! This 1st birthday guest book or sign-in book is filled with 50+ sheets of perfectly lined paper for your guests to sign and 50+ pages of blank paper for photos, drawings or gift recorder. This vintage jungle/zoo themed guest book makes a perfect birthday memory book, keepsake book, album or scrapbook for any sweet boy or girl turning ONE! With a full-color glossy SOFT cover, and custom 8.25" x 6" size, this guest book will look stunning on the entrance table to any baby birthday party. Birthday Guest Books are perfect for: First Birthday Parties Toddler Birthday Parties Keepsake & Memory Books Albums & Scrapbooks Autograph & Message Books And many, many more..... Congratulations! You're ready to celebrate!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781546898412
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Never forget the names of your special guests with this First Birthday Guest Book! This 1st birthday guest book or sign-in book is filled with 50+ sheets of perfectly lined paper for your guests to sign and 50+ pages of blank paper for photos, drawings or gift recorder. This vintage jungle/zoo themed guest book makes a perfect birthday memory book, keepsake book, album or scrapbook for any sweet boy or girl turning ONE! With a full-color glossy SOFT cover, and custom 8.25" x 6" size, this guest book will look stunning on the entrance table to any baby birthday party. Birthday Guest Books are perfect for: First Birthday Parties Toddler Birthday Parties Keepsake & Memory Books Albums & Scrapbooks Autograph & Message Books And many, many more..... Congratulations! You're ready to celebrate!
Sour Heart
Author: Jenny Zhang
Publisher: Lenny
ISBN: 0399589392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City—for readers of Zadie Smith and Helen Oyeyemi. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction • Finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Guardian • Esquire • New York • BuzzFeed A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience in America. Her stories cut across generations and continents, moving from the fraught halls of a public school in Flushing, Queens, to the tumultuous streets of Shanghai, China, during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. In the absence of grown-ups, latchkey kids experiment on each other until one day the experiments turn violent; an overbearing mother abandons her artistic aspirations to come to America but relives her glory days through karaoke; and a shy loner struggles to master English so she can speak to God. Narrated by the daughters of Chinese immigrants who fled imperiled lives as artists back home only to struggle to stay afloat—dumpster diving for food and scamming Atlantic City casino buses to make a buck—these seven stories showcase Zhang’s compassion, moral courage, and a perverse sense of humor reminiscent of Portnoy’s Complaint. A darkly funny and intimate rendering of girlhood, Sour Heart examines what it means to belong to a family, to find your home, leave it, reject it, and return again. Praise for Sour Heart “[Jenny Zhang’s] coming-of-age tales are coarse and funny, sweet and sour, told in language that’s rough-hewn yet pulsating with energy.”—USA Today “One of the knockout fiction debuts of the year.”—New York “Compelling writing about what it means to be a teenager . . . It’s brilliant, it’s dark, but it’s also humorous and filled with love.”—Isaac Fitzgerald, Today “[A] combustible collection . . . in a class of its own.”—Booklist (starred review) “Gorgeous and grotesque . . . [a] tremendous debut.”—Slate
Publisher: Lenny
ISBN: 0399589392
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
A sly debut story collection that conjures the experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City—for readers of Zadie Smith and Helen Oyeyemi. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction • Finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker • NPR • O: The Oprah Magazine • The Guardian • Esquire • New York • BuzzFeed A fresh new voice emerges with the arrival of Sour Heart, establishing Jenny Zhang as a frank and subversive interpreter of the immigrant experience in America. Her stories cut across generations and continents, moving from the fraught halls of a public school in Flushing, Queens, to the tumultuous streets of Shanghai, China, during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. In the absence of grown-ups, latchkey kids experiment on each other until one day the experiments turn violent; an overbearing mother abandons her artistic aspirations to come to America but relives her glory days through karaoke; and a shy loner struggles to master English so she can speak to God. Narrated by the daughters of Chinese immigrants who fled imperiled lives as artists back home only to struggle to stay afloat—dumpster diving for food and scamming Atlantic City casino buses to make a buck—these seven stories showcase Zhang’s compassion, moral courage, and a perverse sense of humor reminiscent of Portnoy’s Complaint. A darkly funny and intimate rendering of girlhood, Sour Heart examines what it means to belong to a family, to find your home, leave it, reject it, and return again. Praise for Sour Heart “[Jenny Zhang’s] coming-of-age tales are coarse and funny, sweet and sour, told in language that’s rough-hewn yet pulsating with energy.”—USA Today “One of the knockout fiction debuts of the year.”—New York “Compelling writing about what it means to be a teenager . . . It’s brilliant, it’s dark, but it’s also humorous and filled with love.”—Isaac Fitzgerald, Today “[A] combustible collection . . . in a class of its own.”—Booklist (starred review) “Gorgeous and grotesque . . . [a] tremendous debut.”—Slate
Now You Are One
Author: Minnie Birdsong
Publisher: Little Bird Greetings
ISBN: 9781680522068
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Give a birthday book instead of a birthday card Under the cover flap, write a personal note about this special day. Adorable illustrations and a read-aloud story will be a favorite with toddlers. Embellished cover includes lift-a-flap for personalization Includes envelope and seal Trade your greeting card for a board book keepsake
Publisher: Little Bird Greetings
ISBN: 9781680522068
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Give a birthday book instead of a birthday card Under the cover flap, write a personal note about this special day. Adorable illustrations and a read-aloud story will be a favorite with toddlers. Embellished cover includes lift-a-flap for personalization Includes envelope and seal Trade your greeting card for a board book keepsake
Stranger Care
Author: Sarah Sentilles
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1922459089
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
A devastating memoir about motherhood, from the award-winning author of Draw Your Weapons
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1922459089
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
A devastating memoir about motherhood, from the award-winning author of Draw Your Weapons
Dear Jenny, We are All Find
Author: Jenny Zhang
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985118204
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Jenny Zhang's poems broadcast themselves with a surrealist anxiety. 'Can't I be my own dream?' she asks. The answer is always yes and always no. With dizzying energy and intelligence, Zhang forages through familial, global, and even anatomical configurations vainly outlining an identity that manifests only to shift and move restlessly on. This book brings to mind a 21st century Whitman, only female, Chinese, and profoundly scatological." Elizabeth Robinson"
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985118204
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Jenny Zhang's poems broadcast themselves with a surrealist anxiety. 'Can't I be my own dream?' she asks. The answer is always yes and always no. With dizzying energy and intelligence, Zhang forages through familial, global, and even anatomical configurations vainly outlining an identity that manifests only to shift and move restlessly on. This book brings to mind a 21st century Whitman, only female, Chinese, and profoundly scatological." Elizabeth Robinson"