Activities of Daily Living

How do we take stock of a life--by what means, and by what measure? This is the...
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Author: Lisa Hsiao Chen
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Activities of Daily Living by Chen, Lisa Hsiao

Activities of Daily Living

$52.65

Activities of Daily Living

$52.65
Author: Lisa Hsiao Chen
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

How do we take stock of a life--by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, a Taiwanese immigrant in her late thirties. In the off-hours from her day job, Alice struggles to create a project about the enigmatic downtown performance artist Tehching Hsieh and his monumental, yearlong 1980s performance pieces. Meanwhile, she becomes the caretaker for her aging stepfather, a Vietnam vet whose dream of making traditional Chinese furniture dissolved in alcoholism and dementia.

As Alice roots deeper into Hsieh's radical use of time--in one piece, the artist confined himself to a cell for a year; in the next, he punched a time clock every hour, on the hour, for a year--and his mysterious disappearance from the art world, her project starts metabolizing events from her own life. She wanders from subway rides to street protests, loses touch with a friend, and tenderly observes her father's slow decline.

Moving between present-day and 1980s New York City, with detours to Silicon Valley and the Venice Biennale, this vivid debut announces Lisa Hsiao Chen as an audacious new talent. Activities of Daily Living is a lucid, intimate examination of the creative life and the passage of time.



Author: Lisa Hsiao Chen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 04/12/2022
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.59h x 5.82w x 1.19d
ISBN: 9780393881127


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2021 pg. 8
Publishers Weekly 02/28/2022
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2022
Booklist 03/15/2022 pg. 42

About the Author
Chen, Lisa Hsiao: - Born in Taipei, Lisa Hsiao Chen received a 2018 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award and fellowships from the Center for Fiction and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Workspace program. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she lives in New York.

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