"With astonishing dynamism and empathy, JB Hwang's Mendell Station accomplishes a great deal over its humble page count, painting a moving flash memory about the earliest days of the covid-19 pandemic, imbued with the sometimes subtle, sometimes overwhelming grief that often accompanies the human experience of pain that can't be fully understood." --Jinwoo Chong, author of I LEAVE IT UP TO YOU and FLUX

"Tender, tender, tender. A raw slice of life that will leave you weeping. A magnifying glass into the seesaw of female friendships and the grief that comes with it. Hwang has firmly established herself as masterful storyteller." --Carolyn Huynh, author of THE FORTUNES OF JADED WOMEN and THE FAMILY RECIPE

"Achingly gorgeous and quietly devastating, Mendell Station is a work of genius about the collision of grief and faith and a love letter to community set during the rapture event and purgatory of the pandemic. Hwang writes about the heaviest topics with the gentlest hand, guiding us on a meditation about the role that work, faith, and family have in comforting us. Rarely have I felt so much while reading a book. Incredibly vulnerable and honest, the place it occupies in my mind is tender to the touch. It will stay with me for a long time." --Ling Ling Huang, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of NATURAL BEAUTY