May-lee Chai

May-lee Chai is the author most recently of a short story collection, Useful Phrases for Immigrants, which won a 2019 American Book Award. Her 11th book, Tomorrow in Shanghai and Other Stories, is coming out next year.

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Aug 25, 2022
Community of Voices
Julie Otsuka’s beautiful The Swimmers, the September California Book Club selection, departs from the manner in which she uses collecti…
By May-lee Chai
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Sep 30, 2021
Discovering Kingston's ‘The Woman Warrior’ Among the Paperbacks
Author May-lee Chai recognizes herself in books for the first time in the pages of Maxine Hong Kingston’s groundbreaking memoir of Asia…
By May-lee Chai