By: Chen Chen

This award-winning debut interrogates the fragile, inherited ways of approaching love and family from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives.

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and familythe strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyesall from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and abundant joy that come with charting one’s own path in identity, life, and love.