Cecilia
Jun 2024 · Random House
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'Thrillingly disorienting... ultra-sensual' GUARDIAN
'Hauntingly beautiful' GLAMOUR
'Rowdy and razor-sharp' ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN
An erotic, surreal novella about the ecstasies of intense friendships and obsessive love
Seven, who works as a cleaner at a chiropractor’s office, re-encounters Cecilia, a woman who has obsessed her since their school days.
As the two of them board the same bus – each dubiously claiming not to be following the other – their chance meeting spurs a series of intensely vivid and corporeal memories. As past and present bleed together, Seven can feel her desire begin to unmoor her from the flow of time.
Smart, subversive and gripping, Cecilia is a winding, misty road trip through bodily transformation, inextricable histories of violence and love, and the ghosts of girlhood friendship.
'An intriguing tale of obsession...at once strange and erotic' ATTITUDE
PRAISE FOR K-MING CHANG
BESTIARY
‘Chang’s prose ravishes, ravages, rampages. An absolute lightning strike of a debut’ Kelly Link
‘To read K-Ming Chang is to see the world in fresh, surreal technicolour... wild and lyrical, visionary and touching’ Sharlene Teo
‘Fierce and funny, full of magic and grit’ Tash Aw
GODS OF WANT
‘Blisteringly alive and unapologetically queer’ Guardian
‘Strange, hilarious and unforgettable... a gift and a masterclass’ Bryan Washington
‘Chang rewrites the world as a place of radical transformation’ New York Times Book Review
'Hauntingly beautiful' GLAMOUR
'Rowdy and razor-sharp' ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN
An erotic, surreal novella about the ecstasies of intense friendships and obsessive love
Seven, who works as a cleaner at a chiropractor’s office, re-encounters Cecilia, a woman who has obsessed her since their school days.
As the two of them board the same bus – each dubiously claiming not to be following the other – their chance meeting spurs a series of intensely vivid and corporeal memories. As past and present bleed together, Seven can feel her desire begin to unmoor her from the flow of time.
Smart, subversive and gripping, Cecilia is a winding, misty road trip through bodily transformation, inextricable histories of violence and love, and the ghosts of girlhood friendship.
'An intriguing tale of obsession...at once strange and erotic' ATTITUDE
PRAISE FOR K-MING CHANG
BESTIARY
‘Chang’s prose ravishes, ravages, rampages. An absolute lightning strike of a debut’ Kelly Link
‘To read K-Ming Chang is to see the world in fresh, surreal technicolour... wild and lyrical, visionary and touching’ Sharlene Teo
‘Fierce and funny, full of magic and grit’ Tash Aw
GODS OF WANT
‘Blisteringly alive and unapologetically queer’ Guardian
‘Strange, hilarious and unforgettable... a gift and a masterclass’ Bryan Washington
‘Chang rewrites the world as a place of radical transformation’ New York Times Book Review
About the author
K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow, a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and an O. Henry Prize winner. She is the author of the novel Bestiary, which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and Gods of Want, which won the Lambda Literary Award.
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