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The Proper Care of Foxes
by
Wena Poon
Step into the quirky, tender, luminous world of Wena Poon.
In California, a dot com executive falls in love with an Asian barista in a coffee joint. In Malaysia, a Chinese woman boards a plane to London for sex tourism. In New York, an English couple abandons their baby at the door of a Japanese restaurant. In New Hampshire, a depressed transvestite snowboards into an avala...more
In California, a dot com executive falls in love with an Asian barista in a coffee joint. In Malaysia, a Chinese woman boards a plane to London for sex tourism. In New York, an English couple abandons their baby at the door of a Japanese restaurant. In New Hampshire, a depressed transvestite snowboards into an avala...more
Paperback, 228 pages
Published
2009
by Ethos Books
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A collection of short stories, I found that some I liked and some were just ok. My personal favorite was "Vanilla Five" about a thirty-something woman who finds solace in her life (living in the shadow of her famous writer husband) by visiting the secondhand luxury clothing store downstairs run by a Japanese man and his (obviously adopted) white son. I also liked "Max & the Biscuit". I couldn't stand the Regina and Siegried stories ("Siegfried & the Avalanche" and "Siegfried & Regina...more
A unique voice that is quietly observant, these are stories that would tide you through a bad day. Poignant but not something that would weight you down, the stories are relatively fair when it comes to geographical background, and personally I have found my voice in some of Poon's affably odd characters. If there was an option for 4.5 stars this book would certainly have that from me.
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Wena Poon is a Singapore-born novelist, short story writer and performer who lives in the United States.
She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in English Literature and holds a JD from Harvard Law School. She is a lawyer. Prior to her legal career, she worked in journalism and television.
She has published two short story collections, Lions in Winter (2007) and The Proper Care of F...more
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She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in English Literature and holds a JD from Harvard Law School. She is a lawyer. Prior to her legal career, she worked in journalism and television.
She has published two short story collections, Lions in Winter (2007) and The Proper Care of F...more
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