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  • Published: 6 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529938449
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
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Cecilia





A visceral, bite-size novella from a rising Asian American literary star with a striking, surreal, irreverent voice - one of the '5 under 35' National Book Award honorees

A surreal novella about the intensity and eroticism of girlhood friendships, the ecstasy of desire and disgust, matriarchal mythmaking and the haunting presence of crows.

Seven, who works as a cleaner at a chiropractor’s office, reencounters Cecilia, a woman who has obsessed her since their school days. As the two of them board the same bus — each dubiously claiming not to be following the other — their chance meeting spurs a series of intensely vivid and corporeal memories.

Smart, subversive and gripping, Cecilia is a winding, misty road trip through bodily transformation, inextricable histories of desire and violence, diaspora and obsessive love.

  • Published: 6 June 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529938449
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
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About the author

K-Ming Chang

K-Ming Chang was born in the year of the tiger. She is a Kundiman Fellow and a Lambda Literary Award finalist in poetry. Her poems have been anthologized inInk Knows No Borders, Best New Poets 2018, Bettering American Poetry Vol. 3, the 2019 Pushcart Prize Anthology, and elsewhere. Raised in California, she now lives in New York.

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Praise for Cecilia

Rowdy and razor-sharp, luminescent and enchanting, K-Ming Chang is an utter master of the strange intimacies of the body

Alexandra Kleeman

Chang continues to captivate with her lyrical prose and rich storytelling... Cecilia's intricate narrative structure and magical realism creates a hauntingly beautiful tapestry of emotions & experiences. Chang is an inventive voice that deserves to be heard

Glamour

If you're not reading K-MIng Chang, then what are you reading?... A surreal cascade of girlhood memories about desire, queerness, and obsession. Cecilia is at once erotic and repulsive, carnal and tasty. In a word: delicious

Literary Hub

Chang explores the ways in which the body can elicit both desire and disgust, and offers an original look at the volatility of a teen friendship. It’s another high-water mark from a prolific and provocative author

Publishers Weekly

Erotic and strange, captivating and twisted: This one’s for the freaks (complimentary)

Bustle

The work of reading this book leaves the reader with the same feeling one has after eating a particularly indulgent meal—satiation, with the knowledge of more hunger to come

Kirkus Reviews

[A] thrillingly disorienting novella of queer love and intimate obsession... In this author’s highly original voice, language writhes into new, ultra-sensual imaginings and leads us into an uncanny world where the familiar is made strange

Guardian

Touched by magical realism and clearly influenced by the folklore of the author Chang’s upbringing, this novel is at once strange and erotic, with the pairing’s charged relationship leading to gripping consequences

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