The Trip

by Weike Wang

ebook

Published November 18, 2019

About the author

Weike Wang is a graduate of Harvard University, where she earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry and her doctorate in public health. She received her MFA from Boston University. Her fiction has been published in or is forthcoming from Alaska Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, The Journal, Ploughshares, Redivider, and SmokeLong Quarterly.

Reviews

[Angeline · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting short story on tradition and the identity struggles that hyphenated Americans face

Not as strong as Wang's other work, but thought-provoking all the same

[Cas ♛ · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love the way Weike Wang writes her characters, each story offers a different perspective and representation of particular cultural backgrounds. Each piece of her work that I've read so far has managed to explore a topic that I've thought about before? The Trip follows a married couple on their first trip to China, navigating differences in culture and language. At what point does it become too exhausting to constantly have to serve as a translator when introducing someone to your culture, especially when you yourself have always lived between two cultures? This is part of the question that this short story seeks to answer.