Grace Yee (55 results)

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Lin, Grace (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Lin, Grace (illustrator).

Condition: Good. 1st American ed. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Lin, Grace (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Color illustration on cover and dj. Int. good. Color illustrations. Illustrated eps. Grace Lin (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American edition stated. Small tape repair at top of spine. Price not clipped. Lin, Grace (illustrator).

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Ping leaves Hong Kong for a prosperous life in New Zealand or so she has been led to believe. Instead she works long hours frying fish in a rat-infested shop, and at home contends with a dissolute husband and four children who struggle with their mothers unhappiness.Polyphonic and richly textured, Chinese Fish is an intergenerational saga spanning the 1960s to the 1980s. It is an intimate insight into family dynamics, oral and written legacies, migratory histories, and the lives of mothers and daughters.For these immigrantsfrom the impoverishedunsanitaryvillages of China,where beggars and vagabonds are numerous,and lepers peculiarly wretched,where the coast is infestedwith pirates, childrenkidnapped and sold, and whole familieslive on boats,New Zealand is a paradise.' An award-winning debut poetry collection exploring diaspora and discrimination through the intergenerational experiences of migrant women. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: New. Ping leaves Hong Kong for a prosperous life in New Zealand - or so she has been led to believe. Instead she works long hours frying fish in a rat-infested shop, and at home contends with a dissolute husband and four children who struggle with their mother's unhappiness.Polyphonic and richly textured, Chinese Fish is an intergenerational saga spanning the 1960s to the 1980s. It is an intimate insight into family dynamics, oral and written legacies, migratory histories, and the lives of mothers and daughters.'For these immigrantsfrom the impoverishedunsanitaryvillages of China,where beggars and vagabonds are numerous,and lepers peculiarly wretched,where the coast is infestedwith pirates, childrenkidnapped and sold, and whole familieslive on boats,New Zealand is a paradise.'.…

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. **Winner, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2024, Mary and Peter Briggs Award for Poetry****Winner, Victorian Prize for Literature 2024****Winner, Victorian Premiers Literary Awards 2024, Poetry**When Ping leaves Hong Kong to live in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, she discovers that life in the Land of the Long White Cloud is not the prosperous paradise she was led to believe it would be. Every day she works in a rat-infested shop frying fish, and every evening she waits for her wayward husband, armed with a vacuum cleaner to suck all the bad thing out. Her four children are a brood of monolingual aliens. Eldest daughter Cherry struggles with her mothers unhappiness and the responsibility of caring for her younger siblings, especially the rage-prone, meat-cleaver-wielding Baby Joseph.Chinese Fish is a family saga that spans the 1960s through to the 1980s. Narrated in multiple voices and laced with archival fragments and scholarly interjections, it offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of women and girls in a community that has historically been characterised as both a yellow peril menace and an exotic model minority.'a major poetic work of feminist, so-called minority writing, its originality and brilliance more than earning its space alongside such works as Kathleen Fallons Working Hot, Gloria Anzalduas Borderlands, and Alison Whittakerss BlakWork.' Marion May Campbell'As visually provocative as it is poetic, Chinese Fish portrays the fractured, multilayered, imperiled body of the immigrant story in a stunning work of genre-bending prose poetry. Yee has given the Chin family a literary resting place as complex and as searing as the New Zealand in which they survived.' Juli Min'an unflinchingly honest look at life behind closed doors, where resentment simmers, generations clash, and individual dreams are set aside for the interests of family.' Chris Tse, New Zealand Poet Laureate'Theres a wry humour to the book, sometimes shocking, but often subtle. The narrative is epic, fragmentary and suggestive.' Andy Jackson, Meanjin Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Grace Yees follow-up to her triple award-winning poetry collection Chinese Fish.In the White Hills Cemetery in Bendigo the remains of more than a thousand chinamen lie interred, many in unmarked graves. Most were sojourners, who hailed from the Canton region in south China, and found themselves unable to return to their homeland. Joss: A History is inspired by the lived experiences of these early settlers, and their compatriots and descendants across Victoria and New South Wales, and Aotearoa New Zealand. The poems pay tribute to the authors ancestors, illuminating how they survived and thrived amid longstanding colonialist stories that have exoticised and diminished Chinese communities in white settler nations around the Pacific Rim since the gold rushes of the nineteenth century. Refracted through a twenty-first century lens, Joss is grounded in the conviction that the past is not past, that historical events reverberate insistently in the present. Grace Yees follow-up to her triple award-winning poetry collection Chinese Fish Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Vintage Bks Ed, June1999/ 6th Print. 427 pp. Solidly bound copy with minimal external wear. Clean text. Nearly flawless interior. Some stains and discoloration on cover pages. Chin-Yee Lai (Cover Design); 'Street Scene, Southern City, 1936' by Walker Evans (Cover Photo); Suvi Asch (Book Design); Abby Ayers (Author Photo) (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. CHINESE-LANGUAGE spiral-bound softcover in excellent, unmarked condition (slight handling). 59 colorful pages. [8oz]. Book.

Paperback / Softback. Condition: Brand New. 160 pages. In Stock.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Lin, Grace (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition color illustrated boards contained in an as new condition color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Foreword by Mike Winchell; Acknowledgments and About the Authors. Illustrated with black-and-white photograph and black-and-white drawings/cartoons. The lower page edge contains a small pencil eraser sized remainder mark. "Have you ever wondered where authors get their ideas? Or how those ideas become stories? Now you can find the answers with this collection of short stories, as authors reveal the real-life experiences that inspired them! Some stories imitate the events almosst exactly. Others use just a detail to spark an idea. But all the stories in Been There, Done That prove one thing: that inspiration can come from anywhere. The contributing authors include (arranged alphabetically by last name, first name): Alvarez, Julia; Cushman, Karen; Engle, Margarita; Garretson, Dee; Hale, Nathan; Kirby, Matthew J.; Legrand, Claire; Line, Grace; Messner, Kate; Park, Linda Sue; Rex, Adam; Rose, Caroline Starr; Rylander, Chris; Schmidt, Gary D.; Sitomer, Alan Lawrence; Stemple, Heidi E.; Williams-Garcia, Rita; Wymer, Tracy Edward; Yee, Lisa; Yolen, Jane." - excerpt from the inner front jacket flap.…

Condition: VERY GOOD. First appearance in print of these works. The entire issue of this feminist quarterly is devoted to fiction, essays and poetry by women of Asian descent living in Canada - included are writers born in Korea, China, the Caribbean, India, the Philippines, Japan, Canada and more. Very good in wrappers in stiff wrappers with cover illustration by Sharon Fernandez - reading crease on front cover, prev owner's name. …

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A very good clean copy. A genre-bending poetry collection that tells the story of a Cantonese family settling in New Zealand across several generations, particularly from the 1960s to the 1980s. Through the experiences of Ping, her daughter Cherry and other family members, it explores migration, racism, family obligation, cultural dislocation and the often overlooked experiences of Chinese women in New Zealand. Combining multiple voices with archival material, scholarly fragments and visual forms, the collection blends poetry and family saga to examine the tensions between generations, cultures and expectations of immigrant life.…

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 260 pages. 10.43x6.06x0.71 inches. In Stock.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Condition: New. 2022. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.