Vanessa Hua is the daughter of Chinese immigrants and the author of A River of Stars, Deceit and Other Possibilities, and Forbidden City.
Maxine Hong Kingston’s memoir re-imagined and breathed new life into a vital figure of Chinese folklore for a new audience.
Vanessa Hua shares a short story about a Chinese American teen who sees himself in an unexpected face.
In The Committed, Viet Thanh Nguyen follows up on his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer.