Anelise Chen

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Anelise Chen |Honoree Fanonne Jeffers |Honorée Jeffers |Evan Osnos |Jeff Weiss

Anelise Chen. One World, $28.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-9848-0184-5Novelist and Columbia University creative writing professor Chen (So Many Olympic Exertions) serves up an offbeat memoir inspired by her mother’s habitual misspelling of “calm down” as “clam down” in text messages. After the end of Chen’s marriage, her mother’s inadvertent typo prompted introspection about Chen’s tendencies to retreat, self-protect, and stay silent.