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Where Are You Really from

By Elaine Hsieh Chou

Where Are You Really from

By Elaine Hsieh Chou

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*A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 BY LITHUB, THE OC REGISTER, THE MILLIONS AND MORE * NAMED A BEST BOOK OF AUGUST 2025 BY PEOPLE MAGAZINE * NAMED A MUST-READ BOOK BY THE CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS * THE STRAND’S AUGUST 2025 PICK-OF-THE-MONTH * SELECTED AS AN AUGUST 2025 READ BY VULTURE * “Scintillating … These expressive and atmospheric tales mesmerize” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Chou is gifted at storytelling with a surrealistic bent … Sharp storytelling that bends and blurs genre expectations.” —Kirkus (starred review) From the critically-acclaimed author of Disorientation, a multi-genre story collection that explores the limits and possibilities of storytelling A mail order bride from Taiwan is packed up in a cardboard box and sent via express shipping to California, where her much older husband awaits her. Two teenage girls meticulously plan how to kill and cook their downstairs neighbor. An American au pair moves to Paris to find herself, only to find her actual French doppelgänger. A father reunites with his estranged daughter in unusual circumstances: as a background actor on the set of her film. A writer’s affair with a married artist tests the line between fact and fiction, self-victimization and the victimization of others. In these six singular stories and a novella that pivot from the terrible to the beautiful to the surreal, Elaine Hsieh Chou confronts the slipperiness of truth in storytelling. With razor-sharp precision and psychological acuity, she peels back the tales we tell ourselves to peer beneath them: at our treacherous desires, our self-deceptions and our capacity for cruelty, both to ourselves and each other. Expansive and provocative, Where Are You Really From is a visionary achievement.
Product details
Number of Pages:
352
Release Date:
2025-08-19
Publication Date:
2025-08-19
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0593298381
ISBN13:
9780593298381
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
540 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
239 cm
Thickness:
33 cm
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