{"product_id":"book-cwvh","title":"Home Remedies","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA FINALIST FOR THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN\/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION •\u003cb\u003e WINNER OF THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS GOLD MEDAL IN FIRST FICTION • WINNER OF THE JOHN ZACHARIS FIRST BOOK AWARD • \u003c\/b\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE STORY PRIZE \u003cb\u003e• \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003ci\u003eLIBRARY JOURNAL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An urgent and necessary literary voice.”—Alexander Chee, \u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Tough, luminous stories.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Spectacular.”—\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Xuan Juliana Wang's remarkable debut introduces us to the new and changing face of Chinese youth. From \u003ci\u003efuerdai \u003c\/i\u003e(second-generation rich kids) to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster, her dazzling, formally inventive stories upend the immigrant narrative to reveal a new experience of belonging: of young people testing the limits of who they are, in a world as vast and varied as their ambitions.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In stories of love, family, and friendship, here are the voices, faces and stories of a new generation never before captured between the pages in fiction. What sets them apart is Juliana Wang’s surprising imagination, able to capture the innermost thoughts of her characters with astonishing empathy, as well as the contradictions of the modern immigrant experience in a way that feels almost universal. \u003ci\u003eHome Remedies\u003c\/i\u003e is, in the words of Alexander Chee, “the arrival of an urgent and necessary literary voice we’ve been needing, waiting for maybe, without knowing.”\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eHome Remedies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A radiant new talent.”\u003cb\u003e—Lauren Groff\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “These dazzling stories interrogate the fractures, collisions and glorious new alloys of what it means to be a Chinese millennial.”\u003cb\u003e—Adam Johnson, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning \u003ci\u003eThe Orphan Master’s Son\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e “\u003ci\u003eHome Remedies \u003c\/i\u003edoesn’t read like a first collection; like Jhumpa Lahiri’s \u003ci\u003eInterpreter of Maladies\u003c\/i\u003e, the twelve stories here announce the arrival of an exciting, electric new voice.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Stylistically ambitious in a way rarely seen in prose fiction . . . Writing like this will never stop enlightening us. [Wang’s] voice comes to us from the edge of a new world.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49329399300400,"sku":"BDcwvh","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/537131-cwvh-Square.jpg?v=1733743434","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cwvh","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}