Chloe Gong is the New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights and its sequel Our Violent Ends.
She is a recent graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she double-majored in English and International Relations. Born in Shanghai and raised in Auckland, New Zealand, Gong is now located in New York.
At Tor.com she tagged "five books that investigate what is and isn’t enough to stir a quarrel between families," including:
Sweet Black Waves by Kristina PérezRead about the other entries on the list.
Inspired by the story of Tristan and Eseult, this book follows Branwen, caught in a conflict between two kingdoms at war: or otherwise, two families keeping secrets about the bloody history between them. The classics are retold again and again for a reason, after all, just like how stories of family conflicts have also been played out since the dawn of time, wink wink. The idea of star-crossed lovers colliding against their very family to be together is endlessly fascinating, and this book interrogates all the juicy questions of loyalty and love.
--Marshal Zeringue
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