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Lucy Tan is the author of What We Were Promised, which was long listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and named a Best Book of 2018 by The Washington Post, Refinery 29, and Amazon. Lucy received her M.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was awarded the 2016 August Derleth Prize and currently serves as the James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow. Her work is published or forthcoming in journals such as McSweeneys, Asia Literary Review and Ploughshares. ...more

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Do you have any favorite books about Asians in America? Or any favorite historical fiction about Asians?

Lucy Tan So many! I will just list a few here. My favorite work of Chinese historical fiction is To Live by Yu Hua (translated from Chinese by Michael Berry).…moreSo many! I will just list a few here. My favorite work of Chinese historical fiction is To Live by Yu Hua (translated from Chinese by Michael Berry). For a more modern view of China, take a look at Xiaolu Guo's Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth. I can also recommend Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, which explores the Korean experience in Japan in the 1900s.

My favorite novels about Asians in American include Hunger (a novella and stories) by Samantha Chang, Chemistry by Weike Wang, and Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer.

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Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Lucy Tan Though born and raised in America, I spent two years living with my parents in a serviced apartment in Shanghai. There, I got to know a cast of…moreThough born and raised in America, I spent two years living with my parents in a serviced apartment in Shanghai. There, I got to know a cast of fascinating characters--drivers and housekeepers, fellow ex-pat residents, and my very own family members--better than I could have ever imagined. Living in a foreign country forced me to see the world from different and distinct angles. For me, that's where the best stories begin.(less)

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“The heart was the most senseless organ there was—yet the most essential. No wonder people were doomed to be fools from the beginning.”
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“The sun felt so loud, it stood in for conversation.”
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“Why do our minds fixate on the kinds of love we're not getting instead of the kinds of love we are?”
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