Chang-rae Lee recommends 6 tales about encountering new worlds
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, follows a college student as he tries to reset after a wild junket to China. Below, the Stanford writing professor and author of Native Speaker
recommends six tales about encountering new worlds.
The story of Isabel Archer is a classic tale of an "American innocent" abroad. James' ability to draw out the countless complications of a life, as he learned from Turgenev and achieved in singularly gorgeous prose, makes for a riveting and tragic account of this "certain young woman affronting her destiny" in a culture that she doesn't fully understand or belong to.