Fiona and Jane Hardcover – January 4, 2022 by Jean Chen Ho

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Author: Ho Jean Chen

Color: Multicolor

Package Dimensions: 0x210x567

Number Of Pages: 288

Release Date: 04-01-2022

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NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY VOGUE * USA TODAY * TIME * OPRAH DAILY * PARADE * THE WASHINGTON POST * BUZZFEED * GOOD HOUSEKEEPING * MARIE CLAIRE * FORTUNE * GLAMOUR * W MAGAZINE * NYLON * BUSTLE * POPSUGAR * ELECTRIC LITERATURE * THE RUMPUS * DEBUTIFUL * AND MORE! A BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK“A knockout of a book.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer and The Committed “Fiona and Jane is the book I did not know I was waiting to be written. . . . Read this remarkable work of fiction and feel the world open up around you.” —Angela Flournoy, author of National Book Award finalist The Turner House “Unsentimental, subtly subversive, and always surprising. . . . I love this book.” —Cathy Park Hong, author of Pulitzer Prize finalist Minor FeelingsA witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades.

Best friends since second grade, Fiona Lin and Jane Shen explore the lonely freeways and seedy bars of Los Angeles together through their teenage years, surviving unfulfilling romantic encounters, and carrying with them the scars of their families’ tumultuous pasts. Fiona was always destined to leave, her effortless beauty burnished by fierce ambition—qualities that Jane admired and feared in equal measure. When Fiona moves to New York and cares for a sick friend through a breakup with an opportunistic boyfriend, Jane remains in California and grieves her estranged father’s sudden death, in the process alienating an overzealous girlfriend. Strained by distance and unintended betrayals, the women float in and out of each other’s lives, their friendship both a beacon of home and a reminder of all they’ve lost.

In stories told in alternating voices, Jean Chen Ho’s debut collection peels back the layers of female friendship—the intensity, resentment, and boundless love—to probe the beating hearts of young women coming to terms with themselves, and each other, in light of the insecurities and shame that holds them back.

Spanning countries and selves,
Fiona and Jane is an intimate portrait of a friendship, a deep dive into the universal perplexities of being young and alive, and a bracingly honest account of two Asian women who dare to stake a claim on joy in a changing, contemporary America.
Amazon.com Review
I’ll admit, parts of Jean Chen Ho’s debut collection
Fiona and Jane made me cringe. And that’s actually part of its charm. Told in alternating voices, this tale of two Taiwanese Americans captures the comedy, the tragedy, and the love story that is unique to close female friendships. Coming of age in southern California, Fiona and Jane’s lives diverge when the former heads to New York after college. Gone are the heady days of getting drunk on soju at a strip mall Korean bar—blunting the rough edges of their disparate but equally complex adolescences, and occasionally getting them into the kind of trouble that only serves to strengthen their bond. It’s a good thing, because the mettle of their relationship will be tested. Jean Chen Ho has penned a profound homage to the kind of closeness that can remain even when two people are apart.
—Erin Kodicek, Amazon Editor
Review
“Over the course of the book Fiona and Jane become real and electric and precious people. The stories move through intimate, cinematic scenes. . . . The world Ho creates between the two women feels like one friend reading the other’s story, wishing she were there. . . .  [E]ven to those not from Los Angeles, Ho’s debut collection feels like a shared experience.”

—Tammy Tarng, The New York Times Book Review

“
Fiona And Jane captures the textures of female friendship and all the intensity, loyalty, and occasional torment of it.”

—Ailsa Chang, NPR’s “All Things Considered”

“Jean Chen Ho’s debut collection . . . evokes a distinctive multi-ethnic Asian A