Sour Heart Condition:Good Fifteen years ago a twisted

Fifteen years ago a twisted serial killer abducted and murdered five young boys

guards raised him to be a snitch

The Four Loves

Moving from the patriotic optimism of the first few poems ("

while helping them connect what they learn with their other courses and the changing world around them

Sour Heart Condition:Good Fifteen years ago a twistedA 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. In this debut collection, she conjures the disturbing and often hilarious experience of adolescence through the eyes of Chinese American girls growing up in New York City. Her stories cut across generations and continents, moving from the fraught halls of a public school in Flushing, Queens,