Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Fung, Anam, Bell, and More

Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from Pik-Shuen Fung, Tahmima Anam, Matt Bell, and more—that are publishing this week.

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Ghost Forest by Pik-Shuen Fung

Here’s what  about : “Fung’s moving debut follows an unnamed protagonist whose family immigrated to Vancouver from Hong Kong when she was three, right before the 1997 handover to Chinese rule. Her father, fearing he won’t be able to find a job abroad, stays in Hong Kong—and thus, their ‘astronaut family,’ coined by the Hong Kong media to describe families where the father stays behind for work, is born. The narrator grows up in Vancouver with her mother, grandparents and younger sister, born a year after they immigrated, and develops a complicated relationship with her father, whom she only sees twice a year. The time they do spend together, like