![]() ![]() She struggles to come to terms with a domineering mother and an absent father, with self-doubt, with being a friend and having friends, with shocks that emerge from the past. "Ava Ling Magee, the central figure in Joy Huang Stoffers's debut novel, is a work in progress. An unconventional story of an Asian-American matriarchy, THE BALANCE TIPS is a complex and moving literary exploration of Taiwanese-American female roles in family, sexual identity, racism, and the internal struggles fostered by Confucian patriarchy. They must decide to finally confront themselves, or let their pasts destroy everything each woman has dreamed of and worked for. When the family's Taiwanese patriarch dies, Fay's Asian grandmother moves to America and Fay, her mother, and her aunt learn unsettling truths about their family and each other. ![]() She finds her videography work meaningful, but more importantly, it distracts her from investigating the challenges of her own life and keeps relationships at a distance. "Ambitious and brave, this book is a lyric meditation not just on identity, but authenticity." – Jamie Ford, NY Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweetįay Wu Goodson is a 25-year-old queer, multiracial woman who documents the identity journeys of other New Yorkers. ![]()
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