Laura Fisher is an assistant professor of English at Ryerson University. Her first book, on the literary history of social-reform institutions in the United States, is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.
Laura Fisher
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Immigration’s Daughters
The voices of the six Chinese American girls who narrate the short stories in Jenny Zhang’s Sour Heart collectively convey the emotional texture—and often the burden—of striving. What does it mean to believe that life can and will improve? …
