{"product_id":"win-me-something-isbn-9781951142735","title":"Win Me Something","description":"\u003cb\u003eA NPR, Electric Lit, and Entropy Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, Shondaland, NPR Books, \u003ci\u003eParade\u003c\/i\u003e, Lit Hub, PureWow, \u003ci\u003eHarper’s Bazaar,\u003c\/i\u003e PopSugar, \u003ci\u003eNYLON\u003c\/i\u003e, Alta, \u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine,\u003c\/i\u003e Debutiful and \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of Fall\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA perceptive and powerful debut of identity and belonging―of a young woman determined to be seen.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilla Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to fit in at her mostly white school, and too white to speak to the few Asian kids around. After her parents’ early divorce, they both remarried and started new families, and Willa grew up feeling outside of their new lives, too.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor years, Willa does her best to stifle her feelings of loneliness, drifting through high school and then college as she tries to quiet the unease inside her. But when she begins working for the Adriens—a wealthy white family in Tribeca—as a nanny for their daughter, Bijou, Willa is confronted with all of the things she never had. As she draws closer to the family and eventually moves in with them, Willa finds herself questioning who she is, and revisiting a childhood where she never felt fully at home. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSelf-examining and fraught with the emotions of a family who fails and loves in equal measure, \u003ci\u003eWin Me Something\u003c\/i\u003e is a nuanced coming-of-age debut about the irreparable fissures between people, and a young woman who asks what it really means to belong, and how she might begin to define her own life.\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eA lovely coming-of-age story that will resonate with anyone who’s felt separate, or questioned where they belong.—The Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinely crafted.—The New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWu understands the human heart keenly, and her novel is a subtle but powerful triumph.—NPR Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTender and devastating.—The Atlantic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA poignant, impressive debut that should herald the rise of a literary force to be reckoned with.—Shondaland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarefully observed and subtly devastating.—VOGUE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinsome and tender.—Harper's Bazaar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCome to read about a live-in nanny deal with the antics of a rich family in Tribeca, stay for the nuanced exploration of identity.—NYLON\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExquisite.—Glamour\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA story about growing up and finding your place in the world—or creating one of your own.—Good Housekeeping\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI’ve never read a novel quite like \u003ci\u003eWin Me Something\u003c\/i\u003e, which is to say that I’ve never seen the nuances of navigating a biracial identity put, so beautifully, in fiction. . . . Readers will recognize themselves in Willa’s loneliness, and they will feel that they are, finally, in good company.\n—LitHub\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA quietly affecting tale of family dynamics.—Library Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA great book that will spark lots of discussions about family, identity, and how we see ourselves.—Book Riot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA deeply moving coming-of-age novel.—Ploughshares\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA stunning coming of age tale of a young woman searching for belonging and finding power in defining herself.—Electric Lit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTender, melancholic, self-reflexive, and quietly poignant. In other words, it feels like growing up.—Necessary Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA beautiful debut. . . . A powerful, introspective journey that explores race, class, and family dynamics.—Cleveland Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeels like listening to a friend tell you about her life straightforward and true. . . . thoughtful and moving.—ZYZZYVA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[A] poignantly executed. . . . exploration of kinship of all stripes.—Departures\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis poignant debut is about identity, acceptance and complicated family dynamics.—PureWow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA powerhouse debut, this nuanced coming-of-age story is for anyone who has felt hypervisible and invisible, inside and outside, seen and unseen.—Ms. Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntelligently crafted.—The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuperb. . . . This gorgeously written quiet and evocative character study subtly looks at family, belonging, race, and class.—School Library Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilla’s story—and figuring out her sense of self—truly leaps off the page.—Alma\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnthralling. . . . Deeply affecting.—The Atlantic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders looking for a taste of the millennial psyche but perhaps intimidated by the hype around Sally Rooney will want to check out \u003ci\u003eWin Me Something\u003c\/i\u003e by debut novelist Kyle Lucia Wu. . . . this tale of Willa, a young biracial woman, will resonate with a lot of younger people.\n—Napa Valley Register\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA soul-searching journey to be heard, and to belong.—West Trade Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWu’s writing is pitch perfect from start to finish. The introspective and subtle plot floats off the page.—Debutiful\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA subtly rendered and satisfying story of someone on the verge of beginning to know herself.—BookBrowse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImpressive. . . . expect subtle surprises as Willa’s relationships evolve in a satisfying accumulation of carefully drawn small moments that build toward her understanding, even acceptance, of both an imperfect world and herself.—Kirkus, Starred Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWu’s compassionate debut traces one woman’s search for belonging. . . . Wu brilliantly lays out the complicated dynamics of love, belonging, and care that exist within all relationships.—Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wistful novel about how much effort it can take to find and settle into your place in the world.—Foreword Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMasterfully reveals the fury, hope, and longing that come with trying to be seen in a world that never looks for you.—Mira Jacob, author of Good Talk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA resonant knockout.—T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWin Me Something\u003c\/i\u003e is an observant, contemplative story about the complex reality of growing up with a mixed identity in two starkly different mixed families. Kyle Lucia Wu deftly weaves back and forth between Willa’s teenaged years and her adult life to explore loneliness, uncertainty, and a singular, persistent question—where do I truly belong?\n—Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKyle Lucia Wu’s \u003ci\u003eWin Me Something\u003c\/i\u003e is groundbreaking in its exploration of blended families and a biracial Asian American consciousness. In subtle but strikingly observed scenes that depict race, class, and lives of having and not having, she explores the secret want that we all have: to belong to something, somewhere. Here we find Willa, a biracial Chinese American narrator seeking to understand where she belongs in the family of things. Here is a prose writer who relishes in the poetry of language. Under Wu’s deft hand, each sentence unfolds like a miracle.\n—Cathy Linh Che, author of Split\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaut, engrossing, and masterfully observed, \u003ci\u003eWin Me Something\u003c\/i\u003e announces a powerful and luminescent new literary voice in Kyle Lucia Wu.\n—Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike a latter-day Willa Cather, after whom her protagonist is named, Kyle Lucia Wu has written a beautiful novel about a fiercely American young woman whose Americanness is constantly questioned by those around her. This is a sad, funny, and tender coming-of-age story about what family and belonging means for someone who is realizing that she is constantly watched but not truly seen.—David Burr Gerrard, author of The Epiphany Machine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA subtle, wise debut. . . . \u003ci\u003eWin Me Something\u003c\/i\u003e is a nuanced story of longing, of the paired desires to belong and to strike one’s own path. Willa is a quiet heroine, but unforgettable.\n—Shelf Awareness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImpressive, insightful.—Booklist\u003cb\u003eKyle Lucia Wu\u003c\/b\u003e has received the Asian American Writers’ Workshop Margins Fellowship and residencies from The Millay Colony, The Byrdcliffe Colony, Plympton’s Writing Downtown Residency, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. She is the Programs \u0026amp; Communications Director at Kundiman and has taught creative writing at Fordham University and The New School. 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