Joy Huang-Iris Boeken

Fay Wu Goodson is a 25-year-old queer, multiracial woman who documents the identity journeys of other New Yorkers. She finds her videography work meaningful, but more importantly, it distracts her from investigating the challenges of her own life and keeps relationships at a distance. When the family's Taiwanese patriarch dies, Fay's Asian grandmother moves to America; and Fay, her mother, and her aunt learn unsettling truths about their family and each other. They must decide to finally confront themselves, or let their pasts destroy everything each woman has dreamed of and worked for. An unconventional story of an Asian-American matriarchy, THE BALANCE TIPS is a literary exploration of Taiwanese-American female roles in family, sexual identity, racism, and the internal struggles fostered by Confucian patriarchy that would appeal to fans of Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You.

The commission of a shopping centre poses a unique challenge for architects, who must distill the essence of commercial design while simplifying visitor circulation and aligning with retailers. This delicate balance requires a comprehensive project that encompasses architectural details alongside a playful exploration of volumes and light. The goal is to create a cohesive environment that functions as a single store, complete with its own ergonomic and aesthetic identity, while dynamically guiding visitor flows and connections. This survey showcases 61 architecturally impressive shopping malls from around the globe, including notable locations such as The Mall of the Emirates in Dubai, Bluewater in Kent, Liverpool One, ION Orchard in Singapore, Crystals in Las Vegas, i-Square in Hong Kong, Bruun's Gallery in Denmark, Hamburger Meile, and The Mall of Kuwait. For architects, it serves as a valuable reference for commercial design; educators and students will find it a rich sourcebook; insightful businesspeople can discover elements that enhance shopping mall environments; and culturally curious individuals can explore the evolution of malls over nearly fifteen centuries, dating back to the first mall, Souq Al Hamdia, in Old Damascus.