Luminously elegiac stories... Complex and rueful, her fiction gives voices to internal struggles, catalogues of loss - New York Times Book Review

Her stories are most delicately and precisely written, and almost unendurably sad. However, there's compensation of a kind in the unobtrusive courage of the women she writes about -- Penelope Fitzgerald

A work of gorgeous, enduring prose - Washington Post

Spare and haunting tales that ask ordinary questions about that extraordinary emotion: love - Chicago Tribune

Intelligent in concept and stylishly executed' - Tatler

The spare beauty of the writing turns the disappointments of family life into a deeply disturbing fairytale' - The Times

A dazzling debut collection [that] will leave the reader hungry to read more - Observer

Impeccable... Delicately specific tales of Chinese immigrant life... capturing the universal struggles of the human heart... So luminous is this collection, the result is something like a pearl - San Diego Union-Tribune

That Chang is able to evoke so nuanced a reaction is a testament to her unrelenting dramatic vision, her depth and subtlety of insight and her beautiful, merciless prose - Boston Book Review

Chang's clear, crisp prose makes the everyday world of Chinese immigrants depicted in her short stories and novella one of great intensity - Harvard Book Review

Somber, vivid, deeply original vision of Asian-American life... a writer possessing a distinctive, fresh imagination and voice - Kirkus Reviews

Lan Samantha Chang is the author of the award-winning books Hunger and Inheritance, and the novel All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost. Her work has been translated into nine languages and has been chosen twice for The Best American Short Stories. A recent Berlin Prize winner, she has received creative writing fellowships from Stanford University, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Samantha lives in Iowa City, where she is director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop.