What Isn't There: Inside a Season of Change

by Jocelyn Lieu

Overview

What Isn't There is Jocelyn Lieu's own interpretation of what 9/11 meant to her and to New York City. It presents her kaleidoscope of memories of the unforeseen consequences of September 11, when an unprecedented act of violence collided with her day to day life as a mother and a writer. This retelling of the experience of a woman who lived near Ground Zero restores the event back in the realm of lived experience where it belongs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781568583464
Publisher:	PublicAffairs
Publication date:	04/03/2007
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.62(h) x (d)

About the Author

Born a bi-racial Chinese-American in New York, Jocelyn Lieu was educated at Yale. She has taught writing and Asian American literature at Purdue, Butler, and Long Island universities has been on the liberal studies faculty of Parsons School of Design/New School University. Her fiction has appeared in the Penguin USA anthology of contemporary Asian-American fiction entitled Charlie Chan is Dead. The Children was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and This World, which appeared in the Penguin anthology was singled it out for praise in the New York Times Book Review.

Table of Contents

Preface     ix
In the Life After
The First Six Days     3
The Next Eleven Days     39
October, November     55
Winter     77
The Year of the Horse     107
Six Months After     127
Endings     149
What Isn't there
What Isn't There (March and February 2003)     185
Epilogue     207
Acknowledgments     209
Dedication     211