Pulling a Dragon's Teeth

Set mostly in the China of the recent past, Shao Wei's Pulling a Dragon's Teeth tells the story of a girl's childhood and coming of age, from playing with a folded handkerchief mouse and ""my first apple by the Yangtze River"" to decrying a ""Sunflower Bitch"" (""you see how deep how dark how marvelous and amazing/ if you call your name again and again"") and allowing that ""[i]t is my turn to be quiet/ when you enter me slowly.""