Fall for the Book

Two writers explore the generational, familial, and cultural bonds in Chinese and Chinese-American life. Yang Huang’s interconnected story collection My Old Faithful, which won the Juniper Prize for Fiction, follows one family from China to America over the course of thirty years. Huang paints “a nuanced portrait of family life, full of pain, surprises, and subtle acts of courage.” Vanessa Hua’s novel A River of Stars follows a pregnant Chinese woman as she makes her way to California trying to claim her own American Dream. Celeste Ng calls it “an utterly absorbing novel about the ruthless love of parenthood and the universal truth that sometimes family runs deeper than blood alone.”