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Kirstin Chen is the New York Times best-selling author of three novels. Her latest, Counterfeit, is a Reese Witherspoon book club pick, a Roxane Gay book club pick, and a New York Times Editors’ Choice. It has also been recommended by The Washington Post, People Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Time, Oprah Daily, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Good Housekeeping, Parade, and more. Her previous two novels are Bury What We Cannot Take and Soy Sauce for Beginners.

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	Counterfeit 3.49 avg rating — 72,943 ratings — published 2022	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 3.43 avg rating — 7,287 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 — 2,117 ratings — published 2018 — 9 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) 3.61 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2015 — 3 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) 4.42 avg rating — 12 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) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 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 0.00 avg rating — 0 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

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Kirstin Chen rated a book it was amazing Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang (Goodreads Author)	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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Kirstin Chen rated a book really liked it Little Rabbit by Alyssa Songsiridej	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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Kirstin Chen rated a book it was amazing Making a Scene by Constance Wu	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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Kirstin Chen rated a book it was amazing Trick by Domenico Starnone	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
This weird and wonderful story spans a mere four days, almost all of which passes in a Naples apartment where a grandfather is watching his grandson. Not much happens and it is absolutely riveting. A virtuosic meditation on art, ambition, aging, fami ...more
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“Govern a family as you would cook a small fish—very gently.”
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“All of us fixate on certain kinds of cheating, while willfully ignoring other kinds.”
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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.”
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