When I reached my gate [..], I discovered there were a lot of Chinese American students boarding the United flight from Boston to Taipei [..]. They looked Chinese, but not Chinese Chinese. You could tell from the summer tans, the...
Amusingly, Kuang feels the need to begin this 540+ page novel with an author’s note on her representation of Oxford university. Accurately, she says, The trouble with writing an Oxford novel is that anyone who has spent time at Oxford...
This is one of those novels which features a protagonist designed to be unlikeable. From the outset, June (Junie, Juniper) Song Hayward is openly envious of her friend and colleague, Athena Liu. The two girls knew each other in Yale,...
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