Daddy Issues: Stories - Paperback
by Eric C. Wat
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Availability:In StockContributor:Eric C. WatSeries:Zero Street FictionPublish date:2025-09-01Pages:156
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496243584ISBN-10:1496243587UPC:9781496243584Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), LGBTQ+, Asian American & Pacific IslanderBook Topic:GaySize:8.86 x 6.10 x 0.39 inchesWeight:0.53Product ID:SCKVCN8ADA
Winner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction Daddy Issues is a collection of moving and complex--yet simply and directly told--stories of queer Asian American experiences in Los Angeles. In many of these stories, the protagonists are artists and writers and other creative thinkers living on the fringe of survival, attempting to align a life of the imagination with the practical considerations of career, income, and family: a gay father who hasn't come out to his young son; a social worker, numbed by the destitution of his clients, who finds himself lost in self-destruction; a trans man who returns home to a father with dementia to help his family pack as they are pushed out by gentrification; a husband who can only stand aside as his wife heals from a miscarriage; and a broke writer who learns to love his stories again. The stories in Daddy Issues offer different contemplations on solitude--the good and the bad of it. Ultimately, this collection by Eric C. Wat is full of hope, and it shows how we can find the connections we need once we allow ourselves to become vulnerable.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9781496243584ISBN-10:1496243587UPC:9781496243584Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Short Stories (single author), LGBTQ+, Asian American & Pacific IslanderBook Topic:GaySize:8.86 x 6.10 x 0.39 inchesWeight:0.53Product ID:SCKVCN8ADA
Eric C. Wat is the author of Love Your Asian Body: AIDS Activism in Los Angeles, winner of the 2023 Outstanding Achievement in History Award from the Association of Asian American Studies; the novel SWIM, a Los Angeles Times bestseller; and The Making of a Gay Asian Community: An Oral History of Pre-AIDS Los Angeles. He works as an independent consultant for nonprofit organizations and philanthropic foundations.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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