Jenny Zhang Books in Order

Jenny Zhang’s poems pursue an unstable sense of identity through family, global connections, and the body. Surreal images and physical frankness give shape to anxiety and self-questioning as each attempt at definition opens onto further uncertainty.

This slim volume gathers four essays, each by a different contemporary writer, reflecting on one of Louisa May Alcott’s March sisters. Together they explore how reading Little Women shaped their ideas about ambition, love, grief, and growing up.

Jenny Zhang’s poems examine innocence, motherhood, race, and the expectation that women nurture others at their own expense. Bodily experience and loneliness intersect with friendship and tenderness as the collection questions who receives love without having to earn it.