For Our Children and For Ourselves (A Short Story From The Atlantic) (The Atlantic Fiction for Kindle)
Book Details
Author(s)Juliana Xuan Wang
PublisherThe Atlantic
ISBN / ASINB007Z9F96Y
ISBN-13978B007Z9F969
Sales Rank1,485,369
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Fiction by undiscovered talent, the best writers you haven’t heard of yet: Juliana Xuan Wang.
Juliana Xuan Wang was born in Heilongjiang, China but after age seven, spent most of her time in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of University of Southern California, and is currently pursuing an MFA at Columbia University. For Our Children and for Ourselves is her first published story, and one of the winners of The Atlantic’s 2009 Student Writing Contest.
Exclusive to Kindle, in For Our Children and For Ourselves, the prospective bride’s mother, one of the new China’s most successful entrepreneurs, is determined to buy her child a husband. And when she sees Xian Gang, she knows he is the one. At his bachelor party, Xian Gang’s friends toast his impending marriage with a mix of jealousy and pity; jealousy because he is fulfilling all of their dreams by marrying a wealthy young woman and is “going to get rich in America,†and pity because his prospective bride is, as his best friend blurts in a drunken toast, “a retard.†Xian Gang struggles to grasp the concept of yuan fen—yuan describing the fateful meeting of two people, and fen the responsibility to fulfill that promise.
Juliana Xuan Wang was born in Heilongjiang, China but after age seven, spent most of her time in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of University of Southern California, and is currently pursuing an MFA at Columbia University. For Our Children and for Ourselves is her first published story, and one of the winners of The Atlantic’s 2009 Student Writing Contest.
Exclusive to Kindle, in For Our Children and For Ourselves, the prospective bride’s mother, one of the new China’s most successful entrepreneurs, is determined to buy her child a husband. And when she sees Xian Gang, she knows he is the one. At his bachelor party, Xian Gang’s friends toast his impending marriage with a mix of jealousy and pity; jealousy because he is fulfilling all of their dreams by marrying a wealthy young woman and is “going to get rich in America,†and pity because his prospective bride is, as his best friend blurts in a drunken toast, “a retard.†Xian Gang struggles to grasp the concept of yuan fen—yuan describing the fateful meeting of two people, and fen the responsibility to fulfill that promise.
