Pik-Shuen Fung

author of two novels, most recently The Tenth Muse, published by Ecco in 2019.

I read Pik-Shuen Fung’s evocative debut novel, , with a combination of wonder and gratitude: wonder at how it manages to feel both expansive and rich, and gratitude at how it speaks to parts of my own experience that I have seldom seen represented in literature, much less rendered with such grace and clarity. An intimate portrait of a young woman and her “astronaut” family whose father remains in Hong Kong after they move to Canada in advance of the territory’s 1997 Handover, this story is also a portrait of the countries she has lived in and the distances between them, the way absences