Vanessa Hua
Vanessa Hua is the author of A River of Stars, Deceit and Other Possibilities, Forbidden City, and the forthcoming Coyoteland.
Follow Your Obsessions
Author Vanessa Hua reflects on foraging, an intense interest that she pursued—similar to Amy Tan’s bird-watching—during the height of the pandemic.
Coming of Age on the Left Coast
Vanessa Hua reflects on Hua Hsu’s Stay True, the CBC July selection, and the broader experience of transitioning to adulthood as the children of Taiwanese immigrants in Northern California.
‘The Woman Warrior’ Keeps the Legend of Fa Mu Lan Alive
Maxine Hong Kingston’s memoir re-imagined and breathed new life into a vital figure of Chinese folklore for a new audience.
‘Oreo Arroyo’
Vanessa Hua shares a short story about a Chinese American teen who sees himself in an unexpected face.
True Confessions
In The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen follows up on his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer.
Chia Chia Lin’s ‘The Unpassing’
Dreams, danger, and tragedy await a family of immigrants to Alaska in The Unpassing, the highly anticipated debut novel of Chia-Chia Lin.