Xuan Juliana Wang’s remarkable debut introduces us to the new and changing face of Chinese youth. From\u00a0fuerdai\u00a0<\/i>(second-generation rich kids) to a glass-swallowing qigong grandmaster, her dazzling, formally inventive stories upend the immigrant narrative to reveal a new experience of belonging: of young people testing the limits of who they are, in a world as vast and varied as their ambitions.<\/p>\n
In stories of love, family, and friendship, here are the voices, faces, and stories of a new generation never before captured in fiction. What sets them apart is Juliana Wang\u2019s surprising imagination, able to capture the innermost thoughts of her characters with astonishing empathy, as well as the contradictions of the modern immigrant experience in a way that feels almost universal.\u00a0Home Remedies<\/i>\u00a0is, in the words of Alexander Chee, “the arrival of an urgent and necessary literary voice we\u2019ve been needing, waiting for maybe, without knowing.”<\/p>\n