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Meng Jin was born in Shanghai and lives in San Francisco. A Kundiman Fellow, she is a graduate of Harvard and Hunter College. Little Gods is her first novel.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Meng Jin recommends
The Woman Back from Moscow (2023)
Ha Jin
"The Woman Back from Moscow is a rich and fascinating work that questions what art can and should be in times of tremendous political and social upheaval. Chronicling one brilliant woman's turbulent artistic career, and her unrelenting pursuit of her own aesthetic ideals, this story also brings monumental figures like Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Jiang Ching down to their true, smaller-than-human scale. Ha Jin's disarmingly straightforward yet fastidiously imagined prose looks clearly into the full range of human desire and pettiness. This is an epic undertaking by an essential Chinese and American writer."
Land of Milk and Honey (2023)
C Pam Zhang
"C Pam Zhang is an intoxicating and fearless prose stylist who seems to invent a new language with each book. . . the incantatory rhythms of desire that power [the novel] serve us horror and pleasure in each bite."
Banyan Moon (2023)
Thao Thai
"Banyan Moon is an intricately woven story of three generations of women, surviving and living each in their own way. This novel has everything you want: desire, betrayal, grit, tenderness, pride, love, and--most deliciously, most brazenly--the dirty secrets and sacred secrets we make and keep to protect what we hold dear."
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