Synopses & Reviews
“These dazzling stories interrogate the fractures, collisions and glorious new alloys of what it means to be a Chinese millennial.” — Adam Johnson, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning 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 12 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 daughter born into a world so different from his own.
From fuerdai (second-generation rich kids) and livestream stars to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster, these stories upend the well-worn immigrant narrative to reveal a new experience of belonging: of young people testing the limits of who they are and who they will one day become, in a world as vast and varied as their ambitions.
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“Artful, funny, generous and empathetic...Xuan Juliana Wang is a radiant new talent.” Lauren Groff
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“Spectacular....Wang has cherry-picked from disparate worlds and engineered a whole new, sublimely captivating one.” Vogue
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“Excellent....Wang boldly explores what it means to be a Chinese millennial and seamlessly captures the longing of an emerging generation.” Booklist
Synopsis
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 GROFF
The twelve stories in Xuan Juliana Wang's remarkable debut collection capture the unheard voices of a new generation of Chinese youth. A generation for whom the Cultural Revolution is a distant memory, WeChat is king, and life glitters with the possibility of love, travel, technology, and, above all, new identities.
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 daughter born into a world so different from his own.
From fuerdai (second-generation rich kids) and livestream stars to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster, these stories upend the well-worn immigrant narrative to reveal a new experience of belonging: of young people testing the limits of who they are and who they will one day become, in a world as vast and varied as their ambitions.
In dexterous, electric prose, Home Remedies reveals a dazzling imagination and announces the arrival of a beguiling new voice in American fiction.
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"An urgent and necessary literary voice."--Alexander Chee, Electric Literature "Tough, luminous stories."--The New York Times Book Review "Spectacular."--Vogue Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2019 by Nylon, Electric Literature, The Millions, and LitHub - Named One of the Best Books of the Season by Elle, Publishers Weekly, The Daily Beast, and New York Observer Xuan Juliana Wang's remarkable debut introduces us to the new and changing face of Chinese youth. From fuerdai (second-generation rich kids) to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster, her dazzling, formally inventive stories upend the immigrant narrative to reveal a new experience of belonging: of young people testing the limits of who they are, in a world as vast and varied as their ambitions.
In stories of love, family, and friendship, here are the voices, faces and stories of a new generation never before captured between the pages in fiction. What sets them apart is Juliana Wang's surprising imagination, able to capture the innermost thoughts of her characters with astonishing empathy, as well as the contradictions of the modern immigrant experience in a way that feels almost universal. Home Remedies is, in the words of Alexander Chee, "the arrival of an urgent and necessary literary voice we've been needing, waiting for maybe, without knowing."
Praise for Home Remedies
"A radiant new talent."--Lauren Groff
"These dazzling stories interrogate the fractures, collisions and glorious new alloys of what it means to be a Chinese millennial."--Adam Johnson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Orphan Master's Son
"Home Remedies doesn't read like a first collection; like Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies, the twelve stories here announce the arrival of an exciting, electric new voice."--Financial Times
"Stylistically ambitious in a way rarely seen in prose fiction . . . Writing like this will never stop enlightening us. Wang's] voice comes to us from the edge of a new world."--Los Angeles Review of Books
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A FINALIST FOR THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD - SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION - LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE -
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNAL "An urgent and necessary literary voice."--Alexander Chee, Electric Literature
"Tough, luminous stories."--The New York Times Book Review
"Spectacular."--Vogue
Xuan Juliana Wang's remarkable debut introduces us to the new and changing face of Chinese youth. From fuerdai (second-generation rich kids) to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster, her dazzling, formally inventive stories upend the immigrant narrative to reveal a new experience of belonging: of young people testing the limits of who they are, in a world as vast and varied as their ambitions.
In stories of love, family, and friendship, here are the voices, faces and stories of a new generation never before captured between the pages in fiction. What sets them apart is Juliana Wang's surprising imagination, able to capture the innermost thoughts of her characters with astonishing empathy, as well as the contradictions of the modern immigrant experience in a way that feels almost universal. Home Remedies is, in the words of Alexander Chee, "the arrival of an urgent and necessary literary voice we've been needing, waiting for maybe, without knowing."
Praise for Home Remedies
"A radiant new talent."--Lauren Groff
"These dazzling stories interrogate the fractures, collisions and glorious new alloys of what it means to be a Chinese millennial."--Adam Johnson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Orphan Master's Son
"Home Remedies doesn't read like a first collection; like Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies, the twelve stories here announce the arrival of an exciting, electric new voice."--Financial Times
"Stylistically ambitious in a way rarely seen in prose fiction . . . Writing like this will never stop enlightening us. Wang's] voice comes to us from the edge of a new world."--Los Angeles Review of Books
About the Author
Xuan Juliana Wang was born in Heilongjiang, China, and moved to Los Angeles when she was seven years old. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and received her MFA from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. She lives in California.
Xuan Juliana Wang on PowellsBooks.Blog
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