“Lena has a really strong voice, and I think that’s what makes people such fierce fans of her work, but others such fierce detractors and critics, and I would say that there’s, I guess, a whiff of that in my work. That crossover is where fans of Dunham might find a comrade in Zhang. And I would say I have a pretty strong voice and point of view that for some might be delightful and for others might be absolutely agonizing and annoying.” There are girls exploring their relationships, themselves, their friends, their sexuality, their family, girls trying to carve out an identity for themselves, and some turbulence with everything that goes on when you’re growing up. “I would say that these stories are like a mix of accessible - there’s a chatty quality to them - but they’re also kind of interested in making the strange familiar and the familiar strange.
“Lena is a really curious person and she loves poetry - she’s just one of those people who loves picking up books that are off the beaten path, and weird poetry,” Zhang says. After the Twitter meeting, Dunham invited Zhang to open on her “Not That Kind of Girl” book tour, and eventually introduced her to an agent and editor. “Three of the stories in this collection, I revised them heavily based on feedback that I’ve gotten from this writing group,” she says.ĭunham’s brand of feminism - often controversial - is a natural fit for the writer. The group still meets every other week in Brooklyn to workshop ideas and catch up. “It just so happened that so many of us were Asian-American so it’s also an alternative to the perspective from the mostly white one that we were getting in classes,” Zhang says.
She found her voice at Stanford, when she created a writing group with a few peers, including Karan Mahajan, a nominee for last year’s National Book Award, and Whiting award winners Tony Tulathimutte and Alice Kim. And I had a chance to show that I was articulate and able to speak and think when I wrote, so very early on I turned to writing because it was the fastest way to show someone that I had something of value to say.” based on my speaking skills, it would be very low. “If you were to make a quick judgment call on my intelligence and articulation when I first moved to the U.S. “I always found my solace in writing, even at a young age, especially because when I first immigrated here I couldn’t speak English, so writing was a way to show ,” Zhang says.
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“Sour Heart” is a series of stories written from the perspective of various Chinese-American girls growing up, finding their identity and navigating their interwoven cultures. “But we stuck around just because it’s New York and we started making a life for ourselves here,” she says. in linguistics at New York University, which he eventually dropped out of. The family moved from China so her father could pursue a Ph.D. “When we moved in our next door neighbor was a plumber and the person on the other side was an electrician - an Irish plumber and an Italian electrician.” “It was white working class, like blue-collar families,” Zhang says of Murray Hill. Zhang, a graduate of Stanford and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, was born in Shanghai and moved to Ridgewood, Queens, “for one night” before landing in Rego Park, “the secret Murray Hill” near Flushing, and eventually on to Long Island.
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