A Feather on the Breath of God: A Novel [Paperback]

From the National Book Award-winning author ofThe Friend,A Feather on the Breath of God, is a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love.

With a new introduction by Susan Choi, the National Book Award-winning author ofTrust Exercises

A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the balletthese are the elements that shape the young womans imagination and her sexuality.

Sigrid Nunezis theNew York Timesbestselling author ofThe Friend, winner of the 2018 National Book Award, and of several other novels, includingWhat Are You Going ThroughandThe Last of Her Kind. She is also the author ofSempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag. Her work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages.

Susan Chois first novel,The Foreign Student, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. Her second novel,American Woman, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel,A Person of Interest, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. Her fourth novel,My Education, received a 2014 Lammy Award. Her fifth novel,Trust Exercise, won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction. Her first book for children,Camp Tiger, was also published in 2019. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, she teaches fiction writing at Yale and lives in Brooklyn.

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