Bibliograph

Things to make and break, May-Lan Tan

Type

Label

Things to make and break, May-Lan Tan

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Things to make and break

Responsibility statement

May-Lan Tan

Summary

"In these eleven stories, Tan explores the idea that every relationship between two people is actually a relationship between three people: each relationship encompasses and relies upon an interstitial presence--another person, a former self, a future lover. Within this loose thematic constraint, a series of related worlds unspool. Teenagers in a band betray each other. A woman gets so obsessed with photos of her boyfriend's ex that she eventually contrives a way to meet her. A woman has a relationship with her sister's husband's brother that darkly, secretly parallels her sister's happy marriage. Each character is a mirror, double or proxy of someone else, hinting at the possibility that we seek out the same person in different bodies and churn through cycles of self-invention/-annihilation." --, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Legendary -- Date night -- 101 -- Julia K. -- DD-MM-YY -- Laurens -- Candy glass -- Ghosts -- New Jersey -- Transformer -- Would like to meet

Target audience

general

Creator