LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO by Cleo Qian
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence
Finalist for the 2023 Housatonic Book Award for Fiction
A TIME Best Book of 2023
“Qian has a gift for sensory details, and for the speculative and grotesque. . . . a pleasure to read.”―Raven Leilani, author of Luster
- Sale Date
- ISBN
- 9781959030003
- Page Count
- 256
- Language
- English
- Imprint
- Tin House
Meet the Author
Cleo Qian
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence
Finalist for the 2023 Housatonic Book Award for Fiction
A TIME Best Book of 2023
“Qian has a gift for sensory details, and for the speculative and grotesque. . . . a pleasure to read.”―Raven Leilani, author of Luster
The electric, unsettling, and often surreal stories in LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO explore the alienated, technology-mediated lives of restless Asian and Asian American women today. A woman escapes into dating simulations to forget her best friend’s abandonment; a teenager begins to see menacing omens on others’ bodies after her double eyelid surgery; reunited schoolmates are drawn into the Japanese mountains to participate in an uncanny social experiment; a supernatural karaoke machine becomes a K-pop star’s channel for redemption. In every story, characters refuse dutiful, docile stereotypes. They are ready to explode, to question conventions. Their compulsions tangle with unrequited longing and queer desire in their search for something ineffable across cities, countries, and virtual worlds.
With precision and provocation, Cleo Qian’s immersive debut jolts us into the reality of lives fragmented by screens, relentless consumer culture, and the flattening pressures of modern society—and asks how we might hold on to tenderness against the impulses within us.
Finalist for the 2023 Housatonic Book Award for Fiction
A TIME Best Book of 2023
“Qian has a gift for sensory details, and for the speculative and grotesque. . . . a pleasure to read.”―Raven Leilani, author of Luster
The electric, unsettling, and often surreal stories in LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO explore the alienated, technology-mediated lives of restless Asian and Asian American women today. A woman escapes into dating simulations to forget her best friend’s abandonment; a teenager begins to see menacing omens on others’ bodies after her double eyelid surgery; reunited schoolmates are drawn into the Japanese mountains to participate in an uncanny social experiment; a supernatural karaoke machine becomes a K-pop star’s channel for redemption. In every story, characters refuse dutiful, docile stereotypes. They are ready to explode, to question conventions. Their compulsions tangle with unrequited longing and queer desire in their search for something ineffable across cities, countries, and virtual worlds.
With precision and provocation, Cleo Qian’s immersive debut jolts us into the reality of lives fragmented by screens, relentless consumer culture, and the flattening pressures of modern society—and asks how we might hold on to tenderness against the impulses within us.
Praise for LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO
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“Qian illuminates the lives of young Asian and Asian American women in a modern, globalized, hyper-digital world where the pressure to settle down persists.”
The New York Times Book Review -
“Hypnotic.”
TIME, a Best Book of Summer -
“Bold and affecting. . . . explores aging, desire, cultural identity, and queer love among Asian girls and women. Qian depicts with honesty and compassion her protagonists’ complex inner lives. . . . Necessary and poignant.”
Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
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