Previous Books:

Stealing Buddha’s Dinner (memoir, Viking Penguin)

Short Girls (novel, Viking Penguin)

Pioneer Girl (novel, Viking Penguin)

Selected Essays:

Time: “What I Learned from 40 Years of Watching The Golden Girls”

Switchyard: “Though It May Look Like Disaster”

The Atlantic: “I Grew Up Not Knowing My Birthday” (adapted excerpt from Owner of a Lonely Heart)

Oprah Daily: “My White Other Mother” (adapted excerpt from Owner of a Lonely Heart)

Guernica: “Always Someone Leaving” (outtake excerpt of a chapter that was not published in Owner of a Lonely Heart)

The New Yorker: "America Ruined My Name for Me"

Catapult: "What Mr. Miyagi Taught Me About Anti-Asian Racism in America"

Bon Appetit: "I Thought Beef Stroganoff Was for Fancy People"

Time Magazine: "The Comfort of a New Year in Isolation"

Time Magazine: "Cake Isn't Just Cake During a Pandemic"

The Paris Review, "Apparent," Spring 2020

The Best American Essays 2021, edited by Kathryn Schulz

Literary Hub: “Unsilencing the Writing Workshop”