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Vanessa Chan

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Hi I'm Vanessa! I write books, and my first novel The Storm We Made was an international bestseller and published in over 20 languages. I've got another novel in the works, as well as a short story collection, The Ugliest Babies in the World, queued for publication.

I read across genres and use Goodreads to track my books. If I love a book to death, I rate it 5 stars. I don't really write a ton of reviews, but if I do, it means the book foundationally altered my brain chemistry.
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Average rating: 3.81 · 26,073 ratings · 3,532 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Storm We Made 3.82 avg rating — 25,135 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	Peach Pit: Sixteen Stories of Unsavory Women by Molly Llewellyn (Editor), Kristel Buckley (Editor), Lauren Groff (Goodreads Author) 3.53 avg rating — 964 ratings — published 2023 — 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

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Vanessa Chan has read In the Act by Rachel Ingalls	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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Vanessa Chan rated a book it was amazing Erasure by Percival Everett	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
One of the greats, and as a writer, yes we writers (and publishing) get the skewering we deserve
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“Cecily wondered at the damage that would do to one’s soul, to allow others to chip away at you, past the layers of defense, to gain acceptance.”
― Vanessa Chan, The Storm We Made

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“You cannot survive this and live a dead life.”
― Vanessa Chan, The Storm We Made

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“But her idolatry was not blind. The truth of it, she thought, was that men lose interest when the veil falls off and they learn the normalcy of a woman—that she urinates and bleeds and cries and snores like everyone else. But women grow fonder when a man feels within reach. Women do not worship gods; they yearn for broken toys they can mold and imprint on. It was so stupid,”
― Vanessa Chan, The Storm We Made

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March Side Read Nominations ~ 1st Poll

The Storm We Made

by Vanessa Chan

10 votes, 47.6%

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

6 votes, 28.6%

The One

by John Marrs

5 votes, 23.8%

21 total votes

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