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"These dazzling stories interrogate the fractures, collisions and glorious new alloys of what it means to be a Chinese millennial."—Adam Johnson, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Orphan Master's Son Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of 2019 by Nylon, Electric Literature, The Millions, and LitHubAn Elle Best Book of Spring In dexterous, electric prose, the twelve stories in Xuan Juliana Wang's first collection reveal the new face of a generation of Chinese youth. Her characters stand at the threshold of bold and uncertain futures, navigating between their heritage and the chaos of contemporary life. In a crowded apartment on Mott Street, an immigrant family raises its first real Americans. At the Beijing Olympics, a pair of synchronized divers stands poised at the edge of success and self-discovery. And in New York, a father creates an algorithm to troubleshoot the problem of raising a...