Elaine Hsieh Chou

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Elaine Hsieh Chou


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Elaine Hsieh Chou is a Taiwanese American author and screenwriter from California. Described as “the funniest, most poignant novel of the year” by Vogue, her debut novel Disorientation was a New York Times Editors’ Choice Book, New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award finalist and Thurber Prize finalist. A former Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow at New York University, her Pushcart Award–winning short fiction appears in Guernica, Black Warrior Review, Tin House Online, Ploughshares and The Atlantic, while her essays appear in The Cut and Vanity Fair. She is a Fred R. Brown Literary Award recipient, a Sundance Episodic Lab Fellow and a Gotham Series Creator to Watch. Her work has been supported by the Harry Ransom Center, the New York Fou ...more

Average rating: 3.82 · 19,288 ratings · 3,431 reviews · 2 distinct worksSimilar authors
Disorientation

3.82 avg rating — 18,677 ratings — published 2022 — 16 editions
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Where Are You Really From

3.82 avg rating — 611 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions
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“She'd be split apart, never certain if the submissive and docile figure in the mirror was a reflection of who she really was, or the ghostly effect of someone telling her her entire life: this is who you are, this is all you can ever be.”
Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

“For your information, censorship only exists from the top down. The powerless cannot censor anything. This”—she flung her arm towards the theater—“is called speaking truth to power.”
Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

“How was it possible to be so desired and so hated, the two intertwined like heads of the same beast?”
Elaine Hsieh Chou, Disorientation

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