Jack Wang is the author of the award-winning story collection We Two Alone. He holds an MFA from the University of Arizona and a PhD in English from Florida State University, and he is the recipient of an Artist Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the David T. K. Wong Creative Writing Fellowship from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Wang is a professor of writing at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, where he lives with his wife and their two daughters.
"These moving stories are both global and intimate as they span the
continents where the Chinese diaspora has settled. With ingenuity
and impeccable craft, Jack Wang gives us an utterly remarkable
collection that zeroes in on the emotional texture of utterly
unique lives.” — Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning
author of The Sympathizer
“Jack Wang’s We Two Alone is not only a penetrating
examination of the Chinese diaspora, it also brilliantly renders
its subject in the most deeply resonant universal way, as the
yearning for personal identity that drives us all in our shared
humanity. This is a remarkable collection of stories, a remarkable
work of art.”
— Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Good
Scent from a Strange Mountain
“Jack Wang’s dazzling first collection of stories, We Two
Alone, moves through decades and across continents with rare ease,
telling not the story but some of the many stories of the
Chinese diaspora in the last century. These stories are so
elegantly shaped, so satisfying as individual stories, that their
collective power sneaks up on you. There is a quiet and building
intensity to the storytelling here, a commitment to chronicling —
with deep compassion and a refusal of easy answers—the dignity of
human experience against the broader indignities of history. I was
moved, heartbroken, and thrilled.” — Emily Fridlund, author of the
Booker Prize finalist History of Wolves
“This impressive and vibrant collection of stories takes the reader
by the hand, leading us across the world and back in time. But
they’re all unified by the gentle sensitivity of Jack Wang’s prose
and his ability to inhabit characters who long for freedom,
connection, and fulfillment. Deeply humane and beautifully wrought,
these stories stay in the heart and the mind.” — Alix Ohlin, author
of the Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists Dual
Citizens and Inside
“A brilliant and ambitious vision of a hundred years of solitude:
the Chinese diaspora navigated with courage, cleverness, and
grace...As Frank O’Connor said, in the best short stories we find
‘an intense awareness of human loneliness.’ But these characters
cross continents and oceans to free themselves from history and
from their own ‘tiny flames,’ seeking peace, work, adventure, fame,
and, above all, love. This is a delicately wrought and deeply
moving book from an exceptional new voice.” — Eleanor
Henderson, author of The Twelve-Mile
Straight and Ten Thousand Saints
"The seven impeccable stories in Jack Wang's excellent debut
collection feature a diasporic Chinese cast over decades and across
continents....Wang writes with masterful assurance, eschewing
labels, and creating exquisite gems of universal empathy." — Shelf
Awareness, starred
"Wang has the distinct skill of evoking time and place, many eras,
many places, and putting his characters, and the reader in them.
For this, for his erudition, for his poetic prose, readers of short
fiction should search out any short story he writes." — New York
Journal of Books
"Wang’s elegant debut delves into the heterogeneity of the Chinese
diaspora in stories that take the reader to settings as disparate
as 1920s Canada and Nazi-occupied Vienna....Wang’s prose is subtle
and economical, well suited to his themes of disappointment,
alienation, and departure. As the stories build on one another,
they create a portrait full of both nuance and grace." — Publishers
Weekly
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