Maya Chung Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Maya Chung

Reads at once as a juicy diary and as a chillingly astute psychological portrait of a dysfunctional family...The author captures the pettiness of the family’s drama and the damage they do to one another with equal fidelity. 

Maya Chung

The protagonist of Cline’s second novel, is an escort in her early 20s.. She’s broke, with a busted phone and nowhere to stay; she survives only by taking advantage of everyone who crosses her path... Cline creates a feeling of sweaty anxiety—though her protagonist never panics

Maya Chung

A vivid and heartbreaking biography of the Hollywood actress Anna May Wong, and Huang’s third book about a Chinese American icon’s “rendezvous with American history.” Through detailing her resilience, Huang tells an essential story about the tenuous place of Asians in America.

Maya Chung

Being a mother is so often portrayed in black and white—you either are one, or you aren’t. How could there be any in between? But Nettel argues, in subtle and thought-provoking ways, that the role of motherhood is actually “porous”—one can shift in and out of it.