Previous Books:
Stealing Buddha’s Dinner (memoir, Viking Penguin)
Short Girls (novel, Viking Penguin)
Pioneer Girl (novel, Viking Penguin)
Selected Essays:
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”