A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick
“Dazzling…riveting” — New York Times Book Review
“A spectacular work, comic, timely, profound." —Madeleine Thien, author of Booker finalist Do Not Say We Have Nothing
“Immensely rewarding, from the first sentence to the last. Clear-eyed, pitch perfect.”—Charles Yu, author of the National Book Award winner Interior Chinatown
“[A] blazingly talented newcomer...These stories combine the unadorned clarity of the very best newspaper writing and the inspired, weird, poetic inventions of fiction. Chen is the real deal." — The Associated Press