β Scribed by Xuan Juliana Wang
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"These dazzling stories interrogate the fractures, collisions and glorious new alloys of what it means to be a Chinese millennial."βAdam Johnson, author of the Pulitzer Prizeβwinning The Orphan Master's Son
Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2019 by Nylon, Electric Literature, The Millions, and LitHub- An Elle Best Book of Spring
In dexterous, electric prose, the twelve stories in Xuan Juliana Wang's first collection reveal the new face of a generation of Chinese youth.
Her characters stand at the threshold of bold and uncertain futures, navigating between their heritage and the chaos of contemporary life. In a crowded apartment on Mott Street, an immigrant family raises its first real Americans. At the Beijing Olympics, a pair of synchronized divers stands poised at the edge of success and self-discovery. And in New York, a father creates an algorithm to troubleshoot the problem of raising a...
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