Local Heavens Binding:Paperback Winner of the PEN Open

Winner of the PEN Open Book Award • Winner of the Lambda Literary Award • A New Yorker Best Book of the Year • A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year• A Brittle Paper Notable African Book of the Year • Finalist for the Chautauqua Prize

Korean American also includes essays on subjects ranging from the life-changing act of leaving home and returning as an adult

and a lyrical and potent account of displaced lives

Cecily had been desperate to be more than a housewife to a low-level bureaucrat in British-colonized Malaya

and their hearts

Local Heavens Binding:Paperback Winner of the PEN OpenA corporate hacker. An elusive billionaire. A society trying to survive the American Nightmare. New York City, 2075. Filipino American Nick Carraway has just moved to the heart of the fractured New Americas, where he's struck by the city's contradictions shining corporate towers casting bleak shadows over the slums of a crumbling middle class. When Nick meets alluring, new money Jay Gatsby, he falls for Gatsby's frank charm and confident aura. But in