“Jenny Tang’s story is riveting in its mix of the personal and political. Stories of her family’s trajectory, from the Cultural Revolution in China to her journey of self-love in the American Southwest, are interspersed with a nail-biting contemporary narrative of deception and control. The writing is clear and evocative, and it’s a tale told with urgency.”

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– TONI JENSEN, author of Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land

 

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“What Jenny Tang captures here is how much we choose to overlook our own misgivings when it comes to intimate partnerships, which makes these pages utterly riveting, even as I devoured them in a growing state of dread.” 

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– STEVE ALMOND, author of All the Secrets of the World, Truth Is the Arrow, Mercy Is the Bow and NYT Bestsellers Candyfreak and Against Football, host of Dear Sugars Podcast

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“Jenny Tang has always struck me as fearless. Both her poetry and her prose have a ferocity that makes them difficult to put down, but within that fierce, driven writing, she also reveals herself, makes herself vulnerable, opens up her world to the reader, forging connections that last even once the reading is finished.”

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– GILLIAN WEGENER, author of Lifting One Foot, Lifting the Other, The Opposite of Clairvoyance and This Sweet Haphazard, former poet laureate of Modesto

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