*WINNER OF THE 2023 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR LESBIAN FICTION**A New York Times 100 Notable
Book of 2022*'These stories glitter and pulse' Dantiel W. Montiz In her singular electrifying
style K-Ming Chang peels back questions of body power and identity and the relationships of
Asian American women with vivid imagination. A stream of women adjust to American life by
sneaking kisses from women at temple and buying tubs of vanilla ice cream to prepare for
citizenship tests. Ghost-cousins cross space seas and skies to haunt their living cousin. Two
girls explore each other's bodies for the first time in the belly of a plastic shark. Brimming
with moths and mothers nine-headed birds and storm-chasers these queer fabulist tales delve
viscerally into myth and memory corporeality and ghostliness beauty and the grotesque. ONE OF
THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR in New York Times NPR Them and Book Riot from the National Book
Award '5 under 35' honoree and author of Bestiary. 'Wild and lyrical visionary and touching.
Read her!' Sharlene Teo 'A voracious probing collection proof of how exhilarating the short
story can be' New York Times 'Stunning and moving... One of our most brilliant authors' Bryan
Washington
