Where Are You Really From: Stories

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*A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 BY LITHUB, THE OC REGISTER, THE MILLIONS AND MORE * NAMED A MUST-READ BOOK BY THE CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS * THE STRAND'S AUGUST 2025 PICK-OF-THE-MONTH * SELECTED AS AN AUGUST 2025 READ BY VULTURE *&“Delicious, confessional, shocking, and poignant—it's impossible to put this masterful book down.&” —Alissa Nutting, author of Made for Love and Tampa&“Chou is the rare writer who can serve up dark truths with equal helpings of humor and heart.&” —Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of Pizza GirlFrom the critically-acclaimed author of Disorientation, a multi-genre story collection that explores the limits and possibilities of storytellingA mail order bride from Taiwan is packed up in a cardboard box and sent via express shipping to California, where her much older husband awaits her. Two teenage girls meticulously plan how to kill and cook their downstairs neighbor. An American au pair moves to Paris to find herself, only to find her actual French doppelgänger. A father reunites with his estranged daughter in unusual circumstances: as a background actor on the set of her film. A writer&’s affair with a married artist tests the line between fact and fiction, self-victimization and the victimization of others.In these six singular stories and a novella that pivot from the terrible to the beautiful to the surreal, Elaine Hsieh Chou confronts the slipperiness of truth in storytelling. With razor-sharp precision and psychological acuity, she peels back the tales we tell ourselves to peer beneath them: at our treacherous desires, our self-deceptions and our capacity for cruelty, both to ourselves and each other. Expansive and provocative, Where Are You Really From is a visionary achievement.
Copyright:
2025

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
352 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780593298398
Related ISBNs:
9780593298381, 9780593951804, 9780593951811
Publisher:
Penguin Publishing Group
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Elaine Hsieh Chou
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Humor
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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