Deceit and Other Possibilities

Deceit and Other Possibilities

<div><b>Winner, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature</b></div><div></div> <b>"Searing debut" -O, The Oprah Magazine</b><div><b>Finalist, California Book Award<br /><b><span>"Exactly what we need to be reading in this country right now; and probably always...this collection is funny and sad, quick-witted and thought provoking" -Bustle</span></b><div><b></b></div><div><b>"Subversively funny...readable and human."</b><b>- Buzzfeed</b></div><div><br /><div><div><div><div><b>"The men, women and children in Hua's moving debut often find themselves straddling the volatile fault lines between desire and shame, decorum and rage... She has a deep understanding of the pressure of submerged emotions and polite, face-saving deceptions. The truth comes out, sometimes explosively, sometimes in a quiet act of courage."</b><b> -San Francisco Chronicle</b><br /><br /><b>"Hua writes with sophistication and the punch of the immigrant experience today...exuberant stories filled with nuance and fresh detail." -LitHub</b><br /><b></b><br /><b>"Profoundly moving, and impossible to forget...a truly impressive debut." -Nylon</b></div><div><b></b></div><div><b>"35 Over 35 Debut Authors"<br /><span> </span></b><br />In this powerful debut collection, Vanessa Hua gives voice to immigrant families navigating a new America. Tied to their ancestral and adopted homelands in ways unimaginable in generations past, these memorable characters straddle both worlds but belong to none.<br /> These stories shine a light on immigrant families navigating a new America, straddling cultures and continents, veering between dream and disappointment. From a Hong Kong movie idol fleeing a sex scandal, to an obedient daughter turned Stanford pretender, from a Chinatown elder summoned to his village, to a Korean-American pastor with a secret agenda, the characters in the collection illustrate the conflict between self and society, tradition and change. In "What We Have is What We Need," winner of <i>The</i> <i>Atlantic</i> student fiction prize, a boy from Mexico reunites with his parents in San Francisco. When he suspects his mother has found love elsewhere, he fights to keep his family together.<div><br /> With insight and wit, she writes about what wounds us and what we must survive. <i>Deceit and Other Possibilities</i> marks the emergence of a remarkable new writer.</div><div> Vanessa Hua is an award-winning journalist and writer, and a columnist for the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>. For nearly two decades, she has been writing about Asia and the diaspora, filing stories from China, Burma, Panama, South Korea, Abu Dhabi, and Ecuador. Her fiction has appeared in <i>The Atlantic, ZYZZYVA, Guernica,</i> and elsewhere. </div> </div></div> </div> </div> </div> </b></div>