Orphan Bachelors

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· Ng's first novel Bone was a bestseller and a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award and her second novel Steer Toward Rock won the American Book Award· Ng speaks directly to the rise in anti-Asian hate violence in recent years, and to its historical throughlines. Orphan Bachelors is a timely contribution to a long-overdue popular discourse about Asian American identity, taking its place alongside Cathy Park Hong's Minor Feelings as well as contemporary classics On Gold Mountain (Lisa See), and The Woman Warrior (Maxine Hong Kingston)· Ng's two novels were celebrated for their luminous depictions of Chinatown ? with ?the affectionate knowledge of an insider and the observant unsentimentality of an outsider? (Michiko Kakutani, New York Times) ? and her first non-fiction, Orphan Bachelors, is an equally poetic and lyrical true-life portrait of the same storied place as well as her colorful stints in New York City in the 80's and the high desert of California in the 90's· Publishing during Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month· Orphan Bachelors is both a moving, novelistic family story and an incisive historical reckoning. Ng depicts the history of Chinese migration to the US in gripping detail, through anecdotes of her own family's experiences as much as historical facts and figures from the Exclusion Act to 9/11 and beyond· As a lifelong teacher, currently at UC Berkeley, Fae Ng weaves the stories of her largely first-generation students in with those of her own family, contrasting her upbringing with their contemporary experiences· Excerpts of Orphan Bachelors have appeared in different form in Harper's, The New York Times, The Rumpus, Ploughshares, The New Republic, and Gourmet Magazine· The memoir features section headings with black and white photos of Ng's family dating back to her parents' first years in America· Both Ng's novels were widely and critically acclaimed and we expect great enthusiasm for her warm, humorous, moving account of how her ancestors, her community's Orphan Bachelors, and her own immediate family find space for themselves in this country