{"id":45803,"date":"2019-09-12T11:12:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T15:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=45803"},"modified":"2019-09-02T15:55:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T19:55:15","slug":"last-of-her-name-mimi-lok-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/last-of-her-name-mimi-lok-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Last of Her Name: A Novella & Stories by Mimi Lok [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"As co-founding (with Dave Eggers) executive director of the human rights and oral history organization, Voice of Witness<\/a>, Mimi Lok<\/a> channels her intimate observation of human relationships into an astute first story collection. The titular story features a dual narrative of extreme circumstances as experienced by a teenage daughter who\u2019s assaulted in 1980s England and dovetailed with her mother\u2019s tribulations as a girl in 1941 Hong Kong as WWII looms. Most affecting is \u201cThe Woman in the Closet,\u201d about an elderly woman who, discarded by her son and daughter-in-law, wanders through successive homeless tent villages until furtively settling into the closet of an oblivious stranger\u2019s home.<\/p>\n

Other standouts include \u201cThe Wrong Dave,\u201d in which an engaged British architect begins receiving emails from a wedding crasher he met briefly in Hong Kong and who might have mistaken him for someone else. Dave\u2019s fianc\u00e9e may or may not be the same Mayling in \u201cBad Influence,\u201d which is about an estranged brother\u2019s overnight reunion with his sister.<\/p>\n

Through eight provocative stories, Lok\u2019s sharp gaze transforms disconnection and longing with compelling results.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Fiction,” Booklist<\/em>, September 1, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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