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Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. It's about existence and nonexistence, about being born - without consent. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce women to their violations, traumas, and body parts.

Cuando tenía 13 años, Diyu fue secuestrada mientras recorría el bullicioso mercado del pequeño pueblo donde vivía en China. Arrancada de su hogar y forzada a atravesar el océano hasta llegar a Estados Unidos, Diyu se reinventará ante cada nuevo obstáculo que enfrente. Desde dar clases en una escuela de caligrafía, disfrazarse de hombre o ser obligada a trabajar en un burdel de San Francisco, se esforzará desesperadamente por escapar a una fuerza que se empeña en arrebatarle las riendas de su destino.

For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong, lifelong personal engagement with Alcott's novel - what it has meant to them and why it still matters. These four voices come together to form a deep, funny, far-ranging meditation on the power of great literature to shape our lives.