The Balance Tips

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Pub Date 05 Oct 2021 | Archive Date 27 Jul 2021

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Description

"Ambitious and brave, this book is a lyric meditation not just on identity, but authenticity." – Jamie Ford, NY Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Fay Wu Goodson is a 25-year-old queer, multiracial woman who documents the identity journeys of other New Yorkers. She finds her videography work meaningful, but more importantly, it distracts her from investigating the challenges of her own life and keeps relationships at a distance. When the family's Taiwanese patriarch dies, Fay's Asian grandmother moves to America; and Fay, her mother, and her aunt learn unsettling truths about their family and each other. They must decide to finally confront themselves, or let their pasts destroy everything each woman has dreamed of and worked for. An unconventional story of an Asian-American matriarchy, THE BALANCE TIPS is a complex and moving literary exploration of Taiwanese-American female roles in family, sexual identity, racism, and the internal struggles fostered by Confucian patriarchy.
"Ambitious and brave, this book is a lyric meditation not just on identity, but authenticity." – Jamie Ford, NY Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Fay Wu Goodson is...

A Note From the Publisher

Content Warnings for discussions of/characters’ experiences with:
• homophobia
• biphobia
• anti-Black racism
• anti-Asian racism
• mental illness
• depression
• CPTSD/PTSD
• grief
• identity struggles
• intersectional misogyny
• Confucian patriarchy
• familial abuse and estrangement
• assault
• financial insecurity
• anti-immigration rhetoric
• internalized shame
• trauma, and
• bigotry

Content Warnings for discussions of/characters’ experiences with:
• homophobia
• biphobia
• anti-Black racism
• anti-Asian racism
• mental illness
• depression
• CPTSD/PTSD
• grief
•...


Advance Praise

"The Balance Tips is, on its surface, the story of a couple generations of women, sisters Jia and Hua who immigrate to the U.S. from China and Jia's American-born daughter Fay. But bound up in that is the story of cultural difference, assimilation and resistance. Tragedy so often gets played for melodrama, but Huang Clark’s hand is far gentler. The Balance Tips is not the pornography of suffering, though its characters sometimes face deep trauma. The novel begins with an earthquake, and it’s perhaps the steadiest moment of what is a keen and beautifully-told story of the chasms—generational, cultural—that lie between us. These are, all of them, women trying to get a foothold in a world which can only see them as outsiders.

The novel is a seamless blend of genres: poetry, prose, drama, film, documentation. Similar to the works of Kathy Acker, The Balance Tips plays in the language and throws out conventional fictional structures in favor of bricolage, as if the narrative is searching for the right language, inventing from necessity a new way to tell the story of women who don’t quite fit because they are queer, or first generation American, or immigrant, or, well, women. Their lives are already blended and cobbled things; so too should their stories be."

—Alysia Constantine, award-winning author of OLYMPIA KNIFE and LUCKMONKEY.

"The Balance Tips is, on its surface, the story of a couple generations of women, sisters Jia and Hua who immigrate to the U.S. from China and Jia's American-born daughter Fay. But bound up in that...


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* National publicity campaign

* Review submission to trade press and select literary journals

* Online blogs

* Giveaways

* Marketing to brick and mortar and online booksellers in collaboration with the...


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ISBN 9781951954017
PRICE $17.99 (USD)
PAGES 278

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