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NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2019 BY NYLON, ELECTRIC LITERATURE, THE MILLIONS AND LITHUB"Artful, funny, generous and empathetic ... Xuan Julian Wang is a radiant new talent." - LAUREN GROFFIn twelve stunning stories of love, family, and identity, Xuan Juliana Wang's debut collection captures the unheard voices of an emerging generation. Young, reckless, and catapulted toward uncertain futures, here is the new face of Chinese youth on a quest for every kind of freedom.From a crowded apartment on Mott Street, where an immigrant family raises its first real Americans, to a pair of divers at the Beijing Olympics poised at the edge of success and self-discovery, Wang's unforgettable characters - with their unusual careers, unconventional sex lives and fantastical technologies - share the bold hope that, no matter where they've come from, their lives too can be extraordinary.
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Xuan Juliana Wang's short stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Narrative, The Cut, The Brooklyn Rail, The Pushcart Prize Anthology and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow from Stanford University and earned her MFA from Columbia University. Juliana was born in Heilongjiang, China. This is her first book.
