About the book
Dr. Stephanie Han’s award-winning stories cross the borders and boundaries of Hong Kong, Korea, and the United States. This is an intimate look at those who dare to explore the geography of hope and love, struggle with dreams of longing and home, and wander in the myths of memory and desire.
Swimming in Hong Kong (Willow Springs Books) won the Paterson Fiction Prize, and was the finalist for AWP’s Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction, the Spokane Prize, and the Asian Books Blog Award. Han holds the distinction of being the very first English literature Ph.D. graduate of City University of Hong Kong. She lives in Hawaii, home of her family since 1904.
Praise for Swimming in Hong Kong
Swimming in Hong Kong is a fine debut. Han captures a host of young people caught in the complexities of global identity with easy authority; the result rings with authenticity and feeling.
Gish Jen
Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self
Lovely, searing emotions course through the stories in Swimming in Hong Kong as Stephanie Han beautifully explores the intersection of longing and ethnicity. Her characters achingly search for connections across societal and racial barriers, struggling to discover love across stereotype, desire without fetish.
Trey Ellis
Platitudes and Home Repairs
Stephanie Han’s Swimming in Hong Kong features precise and subtle meditations on cross-cultural experiences, from Asian Americans in the Midwest and Asia to women negotiating male-dominated worlds. Han gracefully traverses a complicated terrain fraught with the politics of race, sex, class, gender, and culture. Readers will be grateful for having spent time with these quiet and insightful stories.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sympathizer, Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
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