A Feather on the Breath of God

From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God : a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time,