FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK of 2024

"Little Seed is what I want the future of literature to be." –Sam Cohen, author of Sarahland

Little Seed is an experimental memoir that braids together the narrative of the author's relationship with her brother and family with a deeply personal field guide to ferns.

The chapters move associatively, commenting on each other indirectly and drawing out questions of assimilation, race, class, gender, nature and the general problem of being and knowing. When the author's brother has a psychotic break, the rigid structure of the book itself breaks apart and the protagonist adventures to the cloud forest of Oaxaca in order to truly live: to know the world by experiencing it rather than reading about it or following the direction of others. Some persistent themes throughout the book: What does it mean to be Chinese? What is love and how best to love? What really is a fern?

Format: Paperback

Author: Tchou, Wei

Publisher: Strange Object

Pub Date: May 14, 2024

Category: Biography & Memoir / Memoir

ISBN: 9781646053360

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