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SELF-PORTRAIT WITH GHOST - MENG JIN GEBUNDEN

A knockout short story collection...Each one of these 10 dizzyingly immersive stories offers up
a heady and visceral portrait of what ails us  from isolation and self-doubt  to unrequited
love and regret over what might have been  to what it means to be (and to be considered) an
American. -- San Francisco Chronicle Meng Jin's critically acclaimed debut novel  Little Gods 
was praised as spectacular and emotionally polyphonic (Omar El-Akkad  BookPage)  powerful
(Washington Post)  and meticulously observed  daringly imagined (Claire Messud). Now Jin turns
her considerable talents to short fiction  in ten thematically linked stories. Written during
the turbulent years of the Trump administration and the first year of the pandemic  these
stories explore intimacy and isolation  coming-of-age and coming to terms with the
repercussions of past mistakes  fraying relationships and surprising moments of connection.
Moving between San Francisco and China  and from unsparing realism to genre-bending delight 
Self-Portrait with Ghost considers what it means to live in an age of heightened
self-consciousness  seemingly endless access to knowledge  and little actual power.
Page-turning  thought-provoking  and wholly unique  Self-Portrait with Ghost further
establishes Meng Jin as a writer who reminds us that possible explanations in our universe are
as varied as the beings who populate it (Paris Review).

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