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Kirstin Chen is the New York Times best-selling author of four novels. Her latest, Tech Wives, is forthcoming in April '27. Her third novel, Counterfeit, is a Reese Witherspoon book club pick, a Roxane Gay book club pick, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. Counterfeit has been translated into eight languages and is being adapted for the screen. Her previous novels are Bury What We Cannot Take and Soy Sauce for Beginners. ...more

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Average rating: 3.48 · 118,128 ratings · 10,173 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Counterfeit 3.48 avg rating — 107,450 ratings — published 2022 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soy Sauce for Beginners 3.45 avg rating — 8,032 ratings — published 2014 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bury What We Cannot Take 3.82 avg rating — 2,596 ratings — published 2018 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Two by Jason Erik Lundberg (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Evan Adam Ang (Contributor), Yu-Mei Balasingamchow (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.53 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	UNION: 50 Years of Writing from Singapore and 15 Years of Drunken Boat by Alvin Pang (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ravi Shankar (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Vijay Seshadri (Contributor) 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best Singaporean Short Stories 1 by Jason Erik Lundberg (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Balli Kaur Jaswal (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Cyril Wong (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tech Wives: A Novel 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“to share one’s secrets is to force others to bear your burden; to stay silent is to spare them.”
― Kirstin Chen, Counterfeit

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“You don’t earn straight A’s all your life without being uncommonly competitive.”
― Kirstin Chen, Counterfeit

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“when you grow up as I did, schooled in the supremacy of “face”—the figurative face, the image, reputation, honor that must be fought for and preserved at all costs—breaking free from constraints to think for oneself becomes a Herculean task.”
― Kirstin Chen, Counterfeit

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