Activities of Daily Living

by Lisa Hsiao Chen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393881121
• ISBN13: 9780393881127
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.6"