The Chinese Groove
“Kathryn Ma’s latest work is brimming with characters whose undeniable complexity, authenticity, and hilarity will make you utter the age-old lie of ‘just one more page.' And the twists! Don’t get me started. A wondrous novel where nothing, and no one, is as it seems."
—MATEO ASKARIPOUR, author of Black Buck
The Year She Left Us
“Haunting….The foundling may be a familiar figure in the history of the novel, most prominently in Dickens and the Brontës, but Ma gives us a striking 21st-century iteration….[T]he most vivid characters in the book are Gran and the troubled Ari. They're shimmering and unforgettable....One of the stunning accomplishments of this book is Ma’s tonal range.”
–NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
All That Work and Still No Boys
“With subtle intelligence and wry humor, Kathryn Ma brings us characters whose lives are complicated—in all the best ways—by family, race, immigration, and quirks of personality. These wonderful stories have the resonance of truth even as they make you see the world in new ways.”