Vanessa Hua

• May-2026
• / General Fiction
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From the bestselling author of A River of Stars comes a funny, heartfelt novel set in an affluent Bay Area suburb where a Chinese American family moves in and sets off a series of scandals, for fans of Celeste Ng and Emma StraubLiving in El Nido, a p...

• May-2022
• / Historical
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong’s protégée and lover -- and a heroine of the Cultural Revolution -- in this “masterful” (The Washington Post) novel. “A new classic about China’s Cu...

• Sep-2021
• / General Fiction
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Rivals since childhood, Fang and Lian both leave their village in China in search of fortune and adventure. After reuniting in a factory city, when Fang's grandmother falls ill, they hatch a plan to win the sympathies of an American online. When he r...

• Aug-2018
• / Women's Fiction
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In a powerful debut novel about modern-day motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to the American dream. Holed up with other mothers-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los An...

• Oct-2016
• / General Fiction
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"[A] searing debut." -- i>O, The Oprah MagazineIn her powerful collection, first published in 2016 and now featuring new stories, Vanessa Hua gives voice to immigrant families navigating a shifting America. Tied to their ancestral and adopted hom...

• May-2016
• / Science Fiction
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A Berkeley premed dropout, Kingsway Lee rises to meteoric fame in Asia, much to the chagrin of his Chinese parents back in America. When Kingsway records his innumerable sexcapades on his hard drive and then is hacked by someone he thought he could t...

• Oct-2015
• / General Fiction
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• Jun-2012
• / General Fiction
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Available exclusively on Kindle, The Deal tells the story of Pastor David, an eager would-be missionary who has brought a team of volunteers from his California congregation to Kenya, to dig wells and introduce the word of God. He has told no-one, ho...