Activities of daily living : a novel
Chen, Lisa2022
Book
How do we take stock of a life -- by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, a Taiwanese immigrant in her late thirties. In the off-hours from her day job, Alice struggles to create a project about the enigmatic downtown performance artist Tehching Hsieh and his monumental, yearlong 1980s performance pieces. As Alice roots deeper into Hsieh's radical use of time and his mysterious disappearance from the art world, her project starts metabolizing events from her own life. She wanders from subway rides to street protests, loses touch with a friend, and becomes a caretaker for her stepfather, a Vietnam vet whose dream of making traditional Chinese furniture dissolved in alcoholism and dementia.
Main title:
Activities of daily living : a novel / Lisa Hsiao Chen.
Author:
Chen, Lisa, author
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022]©2022.
Collation:
340 pages ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780393881127 (hardcover)9780393881134 (electronic book)
Dewey class:
813.6F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
616378