Born in Beijing but mostly an artifact of the United States, C Pam Zhang has lived in thirteen cities across four countries and is still looking for home. She’s been awarded support from Tin House, Bread Loaf, Aspen Words and elsewhere, and currently lives in San Francisco.Her new novel is How Much of These Hills Is Gold.
At the Guardian Zhang tagged ten top novels that "deal with movements physical and emotional," including:
What Belongs to You by Garth GreenwellRead about the other entries on the list.
The loneliness of living in another country, with all its attendant awkwardness and desire for physical contact, drives a novel that swallows its reader whole. Though I encountered this book during a hot summer, I remember feeling physically cold, so completely was I transported to the cramped apartments and dim streets of a morally ambiguous Sofia.
--Marshal Zeringue
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