Chemistry by Weike Wang [in Library Journal]
24 May, by in Adult Readers, Chinese American, Fiction, Repost
After spontaneously cutting off eight inches of hair, Wang's never-named narrator returns to her chemistry lab and smashes five beakers. She insists, "Beakers are cheap," yet the personal price is inestimable: the shattered vessels parallel an equal number of portentous changes involving her PhD program,...