Daddy Issues by Eric C. Wat - 9781496243584

Name: Daddy Issues by Eric C. Wat - 9781496243584
Brand: University of Nebraska Press

University of Nebraska Press

Daddy IssuesStories\nAuthor(s): Eric C. Wat\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Nebraska Press, United States\nImprint: University of Nebraska Press\nISBN-13: 9781496243584, 978-1496243584\nSynopsis\nWinner of the Barbara DiBernard Prize in Fiction\n\nDaddy 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 hasnt 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 brok.