A FINALIST FOR THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD โข SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION โขย WINNER OF THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS GOLD MEDAL IN FIRST FICTIONย โข WINNER OF THE JOHN ZACHARIS FIRST BOOK AWARD โขย LONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZEย โขย NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYย LIBRARY JOURNALย
โAn urgent and necessary literary voice.โโAlexander Chee,ย Electric Literatureย ย ย
โTough, luminous stories.โโThe New York Times Book Reviewย
โSpectacular.โโVogue
Xuan Juliana Wang'sย remarkable debut introducesย 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.
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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 Wangโs 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, โthe arrival of an urgent and necessary literary voice weโve been needing, waiting for maybe, without knowing.โ
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Praise for Home Remedies
โA radiant new talent.โโLauren Groff
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โThese dazzling stories interrogate the fractures, collisions and glorious new alloys of what it means to be a Chinese millennial.โโAdam Johnson, author of the Pulitzer Prizeโwinningย The Orphan Masterโs Son
โHome Remediesย doesnโt read like a first collection; like Jhumpa Lahiriโsย Interpreter of Maladies, the twelve stories here announce the arrival of an exciting, electric new voice.โโFinancial Times
โStylistically ambitious in a way rarely seen in prose fiction . . . Writing like this will never stop enlightening us. [Wangโs] voice comes to us from the edge of a new world.โโLos Angeles Review of Books