Learning From Shame: R.F. Kuang on Diaspora, Language and Writing Young Protagonists
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R.F. Kuang is, in the best sense, a literary chameleon. Each one of her novels presents a different setting and dynamic, but her oeuvre is unified by careful thought, sharp style, and an uncanny ability to make the pages want to turn. Taipei Story, her seventh book since 2018, is about Lily, a college freshman spending a summer abroad in Taiwan to learn Mandarin. She struggles with assimilation, her roommate, Anna, her internet-famous classmate, JC, her self-perception, and the death of her gran
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