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Civil Animals | K-Ming Chang

Jun 3, 2024 | thebaffler.com | K-Ming Chang |Kyra Simone

The day my cousin Weina taught me how to bicycle, we were watching a show about meerkats on the Animal Planet channel. Our Ninth aunt said, If you want to watch animals so badly, just look out the window. Animals everywhere. Walking around, free as can be. Ninth aunt reminds us daily: all men are animals. What they require is a wrangler. Once, she was married to one, but she was unable to ensnare him properly: after she gave birth to his daughter, he strayed.
Review: ‘Cecilia’ is a tightly wound novella about a queer teen’s obsessive desire

May 29, 2024 | sacbee.com | K-Ming Chang

K-Ming Chang's taut novella "Cecilia" explores the intensity of desire by slinking along the razor-thin line between love and obsession, between the desire to cuddle someone or consume them. Life for 24-year-old Seven appears relatively staid. She lives with her mother and grandmother, in the same apartment that the women have rented since before she was born, and works for a chiropractor, cleaning the office and prepping rooms between adjustments. Then she finds Cecilia in one of the exam rooms.
Review: 'Cecilia'

May 23, 2024 | startribune.com | K-Ming Chang

K-Ming Chang's taut novella "Cecilia" explores the intensity of desire by slinking along the razor-thin line between love and obsession, between the desire to cuddle someone or consume them. Life for 24-year-old Seven appears relatively staid. She lives with her mother and grandmother, in the same apartment that the women have rented since before she was born, and works for a chiropractor, cleaning the office and prepping rooms between adjustments.
I Aspire to Urinate as Powerfully as My Boss

May 12, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Preety Sidhu |K-Ming Chang

Skip to content Introduction by Brynne Rebele-Henry Share article Issue No 626 Written by K-Ming Chang Recommended by Brynne Rebele-Henry Award-winning author K-Ming Chang has accomplished a rare feat: balancing desire with the abject, conveying the intensity of first love without the cliché. At once eviscerating, lyrical, and strange, Cecilia is a work of brutal genius, as comedic as it is devastating. The narrator of Chang’s novella sees Cecilia again, for the first time since childhood, as...
Issue Forty-Nine: K-Ming Chang

Apr 13, 2024 | theadroitjournal.org | K-Ming Chang

Back to Issue Forty-NineBY K-MING CHANGWhen I went home it was just past nine, and Ma and Ama were watching TV in the living room of our apartment, the one we’d been renting since before I was born. The duplexes on our street were split into front and back, and their interiors were mapped differently: In the front units, the bathrooms and kitchens were planted far apart. In the back units, each toilet sat in a closet at the end of the kitchen counter.
My Mother’s Stalker

Jan 16, 2024 | guernicamag.com | K-Ming Chang

My mother’s stalker is not tall, not short. He wears black sunglasses and khaki shorts and a floral button-down. The flowers resemble bloodied fingers: nails gnawed off, skin sanded away, wands of bone exposed. My mother’s stalker drives a dust-colored sedan with four doors and a crumpled license plate. The first three digits are 79W.
My Mother’s Stalker

Jan 16, 2024 | everand.com | K-Ming Chang

Photo by JJ Shev / Unsplash My mother’s stalker is not tall, not short. He wears black sunglasses and khaki shorts and a floral button-down. The flowers resemble bloodied fingers: nails gnawed off, skin sanded away, wands of bone exposed. My mother’s stalker drives a dust-colored sedan with four doors and a crumpled license plate. The first three digits are 79W.
In ‘Organ Meats,’ Best Friends Cling to Each Other Like a Dog Pack

Oct 24, 2023 | nytimes.com | Olivia Laing |K-Ming Chang

ORGAN MEATS, by K-Ming ChangSay you had a brilliant friend, the Lila to your Lenù, but instead of being separated by education and opportunity, she was kidnapped by a banana ghost and fell into a sleep that lasted a decade. “Organ Meats” possesses something of the febrile intensity of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, their laser focus on female friendship, but instead of Naples, K-Ming Chang’s wild girls inhabit a magical universe of talking dogs and shape-shifting body parts.
Lord Jim at Home

Oct 2, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Marie-Helene Bertino |Temim Fruchter |K-Ming Chang

Dinah Brooke. McNally Editions, $18 trade paper (264p) ISBN 978-1-946022-64-6Brooke’s 1973 novel, first published in the U.K., presents a stinging portrait of an upper middle class British family. In an enthusiastic foreword, Ottessa Moshfegh describes feeling like she aged 20 years while reading Brooke’s bracing account of sociopath Giles Trenchard, only to be restored with “new nerves” by the end.
Organ Meats

Sep 14, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | K-Ming Chang |Siân Hughes |Bennett Sims |Ed Park

K-Ming Chang. One World, $18 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-44734-5In Chang’s bizarro and magnificent latest (after the collection Gods of Want), two teen girls resolve to become dogs. Best friends Anita Hsia and Rainie Tsai tie a red thread around their necks to bind their kinship and link them to the “motherly dog-headed women” Anita has seen in her dreams.