What is the value of a sparrow? What is the relationship between language and abuse? What does it mean to snap an intestine? Jenny Tie answers these questions and more in a collection of personal essays that explore the distance and the spaces between China and the United States, parents and children, parents and children, older sisters and younger sisters. A Shoebox of Sparrows skips between wry humor and lush prose to tell stories of separation in all the quiet memories of loss and tenderness.

Published in the Spring 2019 Collection.