May-lee Chai 翟梅莉 Book Recommendations
May-lee Chai is an author. NYT Editors’ Choice TOMORROW IN SHANGHAI (2022); USEFUL PHRASES FOR IMMIGRANTS, American Book Award winner. SFSU prof. Prose: @latimes, @NERweb @nytimesbooks
Daphne
Josh MalermanMay-lee Chai 翟梅莉Excited my book was mentioned with these great titles! //Forever Lost in Literature: Can't-Wait Wednesday—Daphne by Josh Malerman, A Map for the Missing by Belinda Huijuan Tang, & Tomorrow in Shanghai: Stories by May-lee Chai: https://t.co/ArpgByWBvo
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookReal Americans
Rachel KhongMay-lee Chai 翟梅莉"Real Americans" is both a novel of ideas and of beautiful sentences. Khong's prose is a pleasure to read — as it was in her first novel, "Goodbye, Vitamin," winner of a California Book Award — even as the questions she raises are chilling, indeed.
Hardcover, 2024
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Year She Left Us
Kathryn MaMay-lee Chai 翟梅莉Looking forward to this! Loved @Kathryn_E_Ma ‘s novel THE YEAR SHE LEFT US! https://t.co/PDD4iria8P
Paperback, 2015
$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookA Map for the Missing
Belinda Huijuan TangMay-lee Chai 翟梅莉Shifting back and forth between the late 1970s and early 1990s, "A Map for the Missing" is a vivid portrait of this period of rapid change in Chinese society, showing both the benefits of opening to the world as well as more personal losses that cannot be recouped.
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookHappening
Annie ErnauxMay-lee Chai 翟梅莉Just finished reading Annie Ernaux’s book, HAPPENING. Wow. Need to just sit and reflect. Wow. That powerful.
Paperback, 2019
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first bookParadise
Toni MorrisonMay-lee Chai 翟梅莉@GrubStreetWomen The film A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT by Iranian American director Ana Lily Amirpour; books DIALOGUES IN PARADISE by Can Xue and BESTIARY by K-Ming Chang; short story collection WHAT IT MEANS WHEN A MAN FALLS FROM THE SKY by Lesley Nneka Arimah ; BELOVED by Toni Morrison
Paperback, 2014
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookRoses, in the Mouth of a Lion
Bushra RehmanMay-lee Chai 翟梅莉Happy to see my review of ‘Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion’ by @writerbushra cited in the @nytimesbooks new Critics Choice picks! I loved this book! 💜💜 https://t.co/G8uePcKrlb https://t.co/tghsCjrwuq
Hardcover, 2022
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookHome
Toni MorrisonMay-lee Chai 翟梅莉@GrubStreetWomen The film A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT by Iranian American director Ana Lily Amirpour; books DIALOGUES IN PARADISE by Can Xue and BESTIARY by K-Ming Chang; short story collection WHAT IT MEANS WHEN A MAN FALLS FROM THE SKY by Lesley Nneka Arimah ; BELOVED by Toni Morrison
Paperback, 2013
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Apology
Jimin HanMay-lee Chai 翟梅莉The Apology" is an imaginative work that draws upon traditional Korean Buddhist beliefs about the afterlife to explore the long-term consequences of decisions made under the value system of a different era.
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookShanghailanders
Juli MinMay-lee Chai 翟梅莉In her audacious debut novel-in-stories, “Shanghailanders,” Juli Min starts in the future and travels backward through the 21st century to tell the history of one wealthy Shanghai family... Min is a talented writer whose debut shows much promise.
Hardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book