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Ada Zhang



Ada Zhang is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Her short stories have appeared in A Public Space, McSweeney’s, Alaska Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She grew up in Austin, Texas, and now lives in New York City where she is an associate editor at Running Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group. In 2023, she was selected as a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree. The Sorrows of Others is her first book.

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The Sorrows of Others

4.07 avg rating — 740 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions
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“She'd been foolish to think she could have solitude and at the same time avoid loneliness....In front of someone else, one comes alive.”
Ada Zhang, The Sorrows of Others

“He couldn't understand what it was like to feel this deeply for strangers, but he supposed this was a way to stay afloat on top of loneliness, buoyed by the sorrows of others.”
Ada Zhang, The Sorrows of Others

“We get so few chances in life to be of real use to another person, to make their life more bearable, and meanwhile the chances to do harm are everywhere and often discreet; you don't fully realize what you've done until it's over.”
Ada Zhang, The Sorrows of Others

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