Novels
O Beautiful (St. Martin's, 2021)
Shelter (Picador, 2016)
This excerpt is from O BEAUTIFUL, which was published by St. Martin's/Macmillan in November of 2021. The novel is set in my home state of North Dakota and follows an Asian American journalist as she attempts to write an article about the 2012 oil boom, which radically transformed the western part of the state.
O BEAUTIFUL was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice, a New York Times Group Text Book of the Month, and one of the San Francisco Chronicle's 15 Best Books of 2021.
I took the accompanying photos while traveling through the area to do research.
Baltimore City
O Beautiful (St. Martin's, 2021)
Shelter (Picador, 2016)
"Please Stop Asking How I Wound Up in Fargo" - Lit Hub
"My Fargo" - The Atlantic
"Alone on the Montague Plains" - Public Books
Which Side Are You On - Reviewed for the Washington Post
Boys and Oil - Reviewed for the New York Times
When We Fell Apart - Reviewed for the Washington Post
Edge Case - Reviewed for the Washington Post
The Comfort of Monsters - Reviewed for the Los Angeles Review of Books
If I Had Your Face - Reviewed for the Washington Post
A Good Neighborhood - Reviewed for the Washington Post
Searching for Sylvie Lee - Reviewed for the Los Angeles Review of Books
Diary of a Murderer - Reviewed for Korean Literature Now
Miracle Creek - Reviewed for the Washington Post
Rainbirds - Reviewed for the Los Angeles Review of Books
The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves - Reviewed for the Los Angeles Review of Books
A Small Revolution - Reviewed for the Los Angeles Review of Books
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