“There is no single anecdote,” Jen Percy writes in the opening sentence of Girls Play Dead, her riveting, heartrending analysis of what sexual assault does to women. “What I’m talking about is an ...

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The American author uses fiction to explore the life of her Chinese mother as she seeks to understand the violence that marked their relationship At first glance, the protagonist of Gish Jen’s latest ...