{"product_id":"where-are-you-really-from-stories-hardcover","title":"Where Are You Really from: Stories - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElaine Hsieh Chou\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 BY VULTURE, LITHUB, THE MILLIONS, THE OC REGISTER AND MORE* \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Delicious, confessional, shocking, and poignant--it's impossible to put this masterful book down.\" --Alissa Nutting, author of \u003ci\u003eMade for Love \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTampa\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Chou is the rare writer who can serve up dark truths with equal helpings of humor and heart.\" --Jean Kyoung Frazier, author of \u003ci\u003ePizza Girl\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the critically-acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eDisorientation\u003c\/i\u003e, a multi-genre story collection that explores the limits and possibilities of storytelling \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA mail order bride from Taiwan is packed up in a cardboard box and sent via express shipping to California, where her much older husband awaits her. Two teenage girls meticulously plan how to kill and cook their downstairs neighbor. An American au pair moves to Paris to find herself, only to find her actual French doppelgänger. A father reunites with his estranged daughter in unusual circumstances: as a background actor on the set of her film. A writer's affair with a married artist tests the line between fact and fiction, self-victimization and the victimization of others. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these six singular stories and a novella that pivot from the terrible to the beautiful to the surreal, Elaine Hsieh Chou confronts the slipperiness of truth in storytelling. With razor-sharp precision and psychological acuity, she peels back the tales we tell ourselves to peer beneath them: at our treacherous desires, our self-deceptions and our capacity for cruelty, both to ourselves and each other. Expansive and provocative, \u003ci\u003eWhere Are You Really From\u003c\/i\u003e is a visionary achievement.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElaine Hsieh Chou \u003c\/b\u003eis a Taiwanese American author and screenwriter from California. Described as \"the funniest, most poignant novel of the year\" by \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, her debut novel \u003ci\u003eDisorientation\u003c\/i\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice Book, New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Finalist and Thurber Prize Finalist. A former Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow at New York University, her Pushcart Award-winning short fiction appears in \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Warrior Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House Online\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, while her essays appear in \u003ci\u003eThe Cut\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a Fred R. Brown Literary Award recipient, a Sundance Episodic Lab Fellow and a Gotham Series Creator to Watch. Her work has been supported by the Harry Ransom Center, the New York Foundation for the Arts and Hedgebrook's Writers-in-Residence Program.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.2 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 19, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44379185217638,"sku":"9780593298381","price":37.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/AczbB3hyjz9780593298381.webp?v=1768917983","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/where-are-you-really-from-stories-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}