Ebook {Epub PDF} What We Were Promised by Lucy Tan

7 rows ·  · "What We Were Promised is a big beautiful novel. Lucy Tan's dazzling debut grapples with the Brand: Little, Brown and Company.  · What We Were Promised by Lucy Tan, $, Amazon. In a nod to feminist literature, Lina is drawn to Simon de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex — the classic is Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. An Amazon Best Book of July Lucy Tan is a wonderful storyteller. Using smooth prose, carefully developed characters, and Shanghai set against the backdrop of greater China, her debut What We Were Promised brings the Zhen family back to Shanghai to join the upper class after twenty years in the U.S. We see this life through the eyes of characters like husband Wei and wife Lina, but we also see /5().

What We Were Promised glows through its intimate, skillful prose. Tan's debut is a beautiful reckoning with the ever-changing definition of "home" - what it means to have, lose and find family again. "What We Were Promised is a big beautiful novel. Lucy Tan's dazzling debut grapples with the persistence of the past, the inevitability of the present, and the difficulty of balancing individuality with community."--Hannah Pittard, author of Visible Emipire and Listen to Me. Lucy Tan first became a published author with the release of her first full length fictional novel, What We Were Promised. It was released in The story focuses on the story of the Zhen family who decides to pull an inverted version of the American Dream. They move back to China after living in America and trying to make things meet for so.

Lucy Tan is the author of What We Were Promised, which was long listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and named a Best Book of by The Washington Post, Refinery 29, and Amazon. Lucy received her M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was awarded the August Derleth Prize and currently serves as the James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow. "What We Were Promised is a big beautiful novel. Lucy Tan's dazzling debut grapples with the. Lucy Tan’s WHAT WE WERE PROMISED is the enthralling story of Chinese family forced, by the return of a prodigal son, to address familial issues and unfulfilled promises. When Wei lands a job in China, Lina, Wei and their daughter, Karen move back to Shanghai.