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"From the critically-acclaimed author of Disorientation, a multi-genre story collection that explores the limits and possibilities of storytelling. A mail order bride from Taiwan is packed up in a cardboard box and sent via express shipping to California, where her much older husband awaits her. Two...

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Main Author: Chou, Elaine Hsieh (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2025.
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Identity (Psychology) > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Short stories.
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Summary:"From the critically-acclaimed author of Disorientation, a multi-genre story collection that explores the limits and possibilities of storytelling. A mail order bride from Taiwan is packed up in a cardboard box and sent via express shipping to California, where her much older husband awaits her. Two teenage girls meticulously plan how to kill and cook their downstairs neighbor. An American au pair moves to Paris to find herself, only to find her actual French doppelgänger. A father reunites with his estranged daughter in unusual circumstances: as a background actor on the set of her film. A writer's affair with a married artist tests the line between fact and fiction, self-victimization and the victimization of others."-- Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:337 pages ; 25 cm.
ISBN:9780593298381
0593298381
Author Notes:Elaine Hsieh Chou is a Taiwanese American author and screenwriter from California. Described as "the funniest, most poignant novel of the year" by Vogue , her debut novel Disorientation was a New York Times Editors' Choice Book, New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Finalist and Thurber Prize Finalist. A former Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow at New York University, her Pushcart Award-winning short fiction appears in Guernica , Black Warrior Review , Tin House Online , Ploughshares and The Atlantic , while her essays appear in The Cut and Vanity Fair . She is a Fred R. Brown Literary Award recipient, a Sundance Episodic Lab Fellow and a Gotham Series Creator to Watch. Her work has been supported by the Harry Ransom Center, the New York Foundation for the Arts and Hedgebrook's Writers-in-Residence Program.

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