Activities of daily living : a novel
Chen, Lisa Hsiao
Activities of daily living : a novel / Lisa Hsiao Chen - New York : W.W. Norton & Company , 2022 - 140 p. ; 22 cm
How do we take stock of a life - by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, a Taiwanese immigrant in her late thirties. In the off-hours from her day job, Alice struggles to create a project about the enigmatic downtown performance artist Tehching Hsieh and his monumental, yearlong 1980s performance pieces. As Alice roots deeper into Hsieh's radical use of time and his mysterious disappearance from the art world, her project starts metabolizing events from her own life. She wanders from subway rides to street protests, loses touch with a friend, and becomes a caretaker for her stepfather, a Vietnam vet whose dream of making traditional Chinese furniture dissolved in alcoholism and dementia. Moving between present-day and 1980s New York City, with detours to Silicon Valley and the Venice Biennale, Activities of Daily Living is a startlingly precise, vivid, and tender examination of the passage of time
English
The Carol Shields Prize for North American Women's Fiction - Longlist
9780393881127
Immigrants----Fiction
Life change events--- Fiction
Fathers and daughters----Fiction
Performance artists---Fiction
Adult children of aging parents---Fiction
Taiwanese---Fiction---United States
FIC CHE
Activities of daily living : a novel / Lisa Hsiao Chen - New York : W.W. Norton & Company , 2022 - 140 p. ; 22 cm
How do we take stock of a life - by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, a Taiwanese immigrant in her late thirties. In the off-hours from her day job, Alice struggles to create a project about the enigmatic downtown performance artist Tehching Hsieh and his monumental, yearlong 1980s performance pieces. As Alice roots deeper into Hsieh's radical use of time and his mysterious disappearance from the art world, her project starts metabolizing events from her own life. She wanders from subway rides to street protests, loses touch with a friend, and becomes a caretaker for her stepfather, a Vietnam vet whose dream of making traditional Chinese furniture dissolved in alcoholism and dementia. Moving between present-day and 1980s New York City, with detours to Silicon Valley and the Venice Biennale, Activities of Daily Living is a startlingly precise, vivid, and tender examination of the passage of time
English
The Carol Shields Prize for North American Women's Fiction - Longlist
9780393881127
Immigrants----Fiction
Life change events--- Fiction
Fathers and daughters----Fiction
Performance artists---Fiction
Adult children of aging parents---Fiction
Taiwanese---Fiction---United States
FIC CHE
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