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Che Yeun is a fiction writer who often explores loneliness, desperation, and survival in her work. Her short stories can be found in Granta, AGNI, Virginia Quarterly Review, the Kenyon Review Online, and elsewhere. She has received grants from Hedgebrook, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the David T. K. Wong Fellowship. TAILBONE is her debut novel.

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Tailbone

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In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women

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My Cousin Rachel

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The Age of Innocence

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“Their tenderness sickened me. Why couldn't I just be happy for them? Happy that tenderness existed all? Why couldn't I look it in the eye?”
― Che Yeun, Tailbone

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“You cannot be upset at strangers who hurt the people you love, but ignore when the people you love hurt strangers.”
― Maggie McMuffin, We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival

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