![]() The lesson here is that it’s a long way from Flushing, Queens, to Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I couldn’t help wondering as I read these electric stories of awkward adolescent Chinese-American girls if any of them would grow up to hang out with Hannah, Marnie, Shosh and Jessa. They’ve made a savvy choice with their opening literary salvo: Sour Heart, a collection of seven short stories from Brooklyn poet Jenny Zhang, who, we can safely say, is “a voice” of a generation, and an original one who commands attention. This brilliant display of Millennial bravado/insecurity emerged from the polarizing lips of Lena Dunham, who has moved on from her seminal HBO series to a new project: launching a publishing imprint called Lenny, with her Girls creative partner, Jenni Konner. Girls fans no doubt remember these bon mots famously uttered by twentysomething Brooklynite Hannah Horvath: “I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang Lenny/Random House 301 pp. ![]() ![]() What should you read this weekend? USA TODAY’s picks for book lovers include Sour Heart, a story collection from Lena Dunham's new book imprint. ![]()
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