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Rachel Heng

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Rachel Heng is the author of the novels The Great Reclamation (Riverhead, 2023) and Suicide Club (Henry Holt, 2018), which has been translated into ten languages. Rachel's short fiction has been published in The New Yorker, McSweeney's Quarterly, Glimmer Train, Kenyon Review, longlisted for the Sunday Times Short Story Award, and recognized by anthologies including Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions and Best New Singaporean Short Stories. Her non-fiction has been listed among Best American Essays’ Notable Essays and published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire and elsewhere. She has received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Sewanee Writers' Co ...more

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	The Great Reclamation 4.02 avg rating — 3,961 ratings — published 2023 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Suicide Club 3.21 avg rating — 4,761 ratings — published 2018 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	McSweeney's Issue 58: 2040 A.D. (McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, #58) by Claire Boyle (Editor), Tommy Orange (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Claire G. Coleman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.87 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Four by Pooja Nansi (Goodreads Author) (Guest Editor), Jason Erik Lundberg (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Balli Kaur Jaswal (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.79 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Bodies by 3 of Cups Press (Editor), Michael Amherst, Marta Bausells 4.15 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best New Singaporean Short Stories: Volume Six by Gwee Li Sui (Goodreads Author) (Guest Editor), Jason Erik Lundberg (Goodreads Author) (Series Editor), Andrew Kirkrose Devadason, (Contributor) 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kenyon Review, Jan/Feb 2021: Volume 43, Number 1 by Kenyon Review, Diane Seuss, Rachel Heng (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glimmer Train Stories, #104 by Amy X. Wang, Perri Klass (Goodreads Author), Les Myers 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts (Volume 32, Issue 2, Summer/Fall 2020) by Justin Jannise (Editor), Joy Baglio, Craig Morgan Teicher (Goodreads Author) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Lea studied the lines of his face. In them she saw again every expression he had ever made--every smile and frown and sigh--saw how they jostled for room on the canvas of his skin, how they'd etched their fleeting existence into his flesh, how they filled it up, made their mark, carved and pulled and twisted until there was no space left.”
― Rachel Heng, Suicide Club

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“For the most part, the things that had happened in her early childhood were the ones that could be counted on to stay put. They were the permanent fixtures, firmly lodged into the architecture of the mind, screwed to the baseboards.”
― Rachel Heng, Suicide Club

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“It was elegant in its simplicity, shameless in its daring, as most of the Gah Men's plans were. Squatters? Move them. Communists? Jail them. Housing? Build it. Even the earth itself was deemed malleable, a cost-benefit analysis conducted, a decision made. The rest was execution.”
― Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation

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