Hunger: A Novella and Stories by Lan Samantha Chang (W. W. Norton, 1998)

★★★★☆

A taut collection of stories centered on the Chinese American immigrant experience, with special attention to parental sacrifice, assimilation, and inter-generational trauma.

This collection hurt. It hurt because it spoke to how my Chinese immigrant parents love/d me, and to how I’ve rebuffed and rejected that love—things I reckon with to this day.