Tomb Sweeping
Alexandra Chang Ecco, 2023 (Paperback edition) 256 pages Disclosure: This review is based on a close reading of the short‑story collection and publicly available bibliographic information. It assesses narrative range and form, thematic concerns around migration and technology, characterization, stylistic approach, and the collection’s place in contemporary American literary fiction. Overview Alexandra Chang’s Tomb Sweeping is a compact, emotionally resonant collection that interrogates the ties that bind—between generations, immigrants and their adopted homes, strangers, and versions of the self. Across stories set in the United States and Asia, Chang captures ordinary lives in moments of rupture and revelation: grocery aisles and recycling routes, clinics and cramped gambling dens, dating apps and family altars. The collection balances wry observation with tenderness and moral complexity, asking how loyalty, memory, and technology reshape human connection in the present ...