The book is a lyrical, sensorial gut-punch of storytelling full of inventive language and myth. Genre-bending Bestiary is about three generations of women shaped by the mythology of their Taiwanese heritage, their queer desires, and their violent secrets. Earlier this month, she made the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 list. Chang is widely published in literary magazines, a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and has a critically acclaimed poetry collection with Black Lawrence Press. Now twenty-two, she has a CV most writers three times her age will never achieve. Bestiary is Chang’s debut novel, written in college during the summer of her sophomore year and sold to One World while she was still an undergrad. My friends and I refer to K-Ming Chang as a beacon of Gen Z excellence, though it can be said that she has achieved excellence that transcends generational divides.
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