Ye, Chun

A moving portrait of a fraught time in U.S. history. Share with readers of Jenny Tinghui Zhang’s Four Treasures of the Sky or Lisa Ko’s The Leavers.

As she moves from her native Chinese to English (she's published one novel in Chinese and the poetry collection Travel Over Water), Ye Chun moves from one world to another, from dragon boats, amulets, and "white flowers [hung] on bones/ rustling" to migrant workers and the Pacific Ocean, which "shovels coals in the distance...