Морин Ф. Макхью – лучшие книги

In the near future, the Second Great Depression and the American Liberation War have left America as a satellite of China. China Mountain Zhang is a Sino-Hispanic New Yorker. His boss tries to interest him in his daughter. Finding himself unemployed, this is a rites of passage story of a gay man.

Джейлинг — молодая девушка, приехавшая в Шэньчжэнь из провинции и нашедшая работу в компании «Новая Жизнь». Казалось бы, всё складывается удачно, но со временем приходит понимание — покинуть фабрику далеко не так просто, как устроиться туда.

Рейчел получила денежный перевод. Но для его получения необходимо ехать через пол-мира... Всё было бы ничего, но этот мир — загробный, а Рейчел — давно как мертва.

In her luminous, long-awaited debut collection, award-winning novelist McHugh wryly and delicately examines the impacts of social and technological shifts on families. Using beautiful, deceptively simple prose, she illuminates the relationship between parents and children and the expected and unexpected chasms that open between generations:

—A woman introduces her new lover to her late brother.
—A teenager is interviewed about her peer group’s attitudes toward sex and baby boomers.
—A missing stepson sets a marriage on edge.
—Anthropologists visiting an isolated outpost mission are threatened by nomadic raiders.

McHugh’s characters—her Alzheimers-afflicted parents or her smart and rebellious teenagers—are always recognizable: stubborn, human, and heartbreakingly real. The trade paperback has bonus added material for book clubs and reading groups, including an interview with the author, book club questions and suggestions, and a reprint of Maureen’s fabulous essay, “The Evil Stepmother.”

In her new collection, Story Prize finalist Maureen F. McHugh delves into the dark heart of contemporary life and life five minutes from now and how easy it is to mix up one with the other. Her stories are post-bird flu, in the middle of medical trials, wondering if our computers are smarter than us, wondering when our jobs are going to be outsourced overseas, wondering if we are who we say we are, and not sure what we'd do to survive the coming zombie plague.

Maureen F. McHugh has lived in New York; Shijiazhuang, China; Ohio; Austin, Texas; and now lives in Los Angeles, California. She is the author of a Story Prize finalist collection, "Mothers & Other Monsters," and four novels, including Tiptree Award-winner "China Mountain Zhang" and "New York Times" editor's choice "Nekropolis." McHugh has also worked on alternate reality games for "Halo 2," The Watchmen, and Nine Inch Nails, among others.