I absolutely loved this collection of short stories (her first book written in English). The stories and their settings are incredibly varied - my two favourite stories were one about meeting someone in the cinema, adding them on Facebook, only for them to kill themselves the same day, leading to a rumination on whether you could fall in love with someone simply through their online presence, and the other a tour de force on the politics of succession in Confucian times.
Yan Ge: ‘I see this collection like a journey of me finding out what kind of writer I want to be in English’ – The Irish Times
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/2023/06/03/yan-ge-i-see-this-collection-like-a-journey-of-me-finding-out-what-kind-of-writer-i-want-to-be-in-english/