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NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY NYLON, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, THE MILLIONS & LITHUB____________________' Striking, soulful & ablaze with promise.' Observer__________________ The twelve stories in Xuan Juliana Wang's funny & wise debut collection capture the unheard voices of a new generation of Chinese youth, a generation for whom the Cultural Revolution is a distant memory, We Chat is king & life glitters with the possibility of love, travel, technology, &, above all, new beginnings. At the Beijing Olympics, a pair of synchronized divers stand poised at the edge of success & sexual self-discovery. A Chinese-American girl in Paris finds her life changed when she begins wearing a dead person's clothes. & on a winter evening, a father creates an algorithm to troubleshoot the problem of raising a daughter across an ever-widening gulf of cultures & generations. From second-generation rich kids & livestream stars to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster, these stories upend the well-worn path of the immigrant experience to reveal a new face of belonging: of young people testing the limits of who they are & who they will one day become, in a world as vast & various as their ambitions. __________________' Dazzling & unclassifiable.... Xuan Juliana Wang has the dark soul of an old poet's inkwell, the deep knowing of an ancient remedy, & linguistic incandescence of a megacity skyline.' Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Orphan Master's Son