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02920aam a2200529 i 4500 001 2347769CC06F11EC8BCEBD203FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220420010009 008 211028t20222022nyu b 000 f eng 010 $a 2021052467 020 $a 0393881121 020 $a 9780393881127 035 $a (OCoLC)1252845978 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d IEB $d JQW $d OCLCO $d IDO $d IMT $d JPL $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 082 00 $a 813/.6 $2 23/eng/20211028 100 1 $a Chen, Lisa, $e author. 245 10 $a Activities of daily living : $b a novel / $c Lisa Hsiao Chen. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b W. W. Norton & Company, $c [2022] 300 $a 340 pages ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "A lucid and moving debut novel on the interconnection between work and life, loneliness and kinship, and the projects that occupy our time. 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. As Alice roots deeper into Hsieh's radical use of time 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 becomes a caretaker for her stepfather, a Vietnam vet whose dream of making traditional Chinese furniture dissolved in alcoholism and dementia. Moving between present-day and 1980s New York City, with detours to Silicon Valley and the Venice Biennale, Activities of Daily Living is a startlingly precise, vivid, and tender examination of the passage of time"--Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Immigrants $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Taiwanese $z United States $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Life change events $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Fathers and daughters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Performance artists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Adult children of aging parents $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft 941 $a 14 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417020018.0 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409042226.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117023530.0 952 $l ETPD745 $d 20231025014347.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010032811.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230203020110.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20230124010650.0 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20221202021231.0 952 $l YUPD232 $d 20220809012012.0 952 $l SAPG074 $d 20220722010227.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20220630010533.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20220602024046.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220510011744.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20220420010049.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2347769CC06F11EC8BCEBD203FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search