Silver Repetition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781620978566)

A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book

A debut coming-of-age novel that delicately illuminates the fullness of identity despite fractures in language, culture, and relationships

In Silver Repetition, Lily Wang's endless, perfect loops of memory and dream, loss and return, combine to create a formally inventive coming-of-age novel. Told from the perspective of a young Asian immigrant thoughtfully navigating dual identities, grief, family, migration, and modern relationships, this is a novel infused with the rich language of a poet.

Having left China for Canada with her parents as a child, Yuè Yuè yearns to discover who she is as she nears the end of her undergraduate degree and starts a new relationship. In urgent poetic fragments, she seeks common ground with her Canadian-born younger sister and grieves the beloved cousin she lost touch with back home. After Yuè Yuè receives a call from a girl making accusations, her date ghosts her. Meanwhile, her mother's illness advances like snow. On a walk in the woods, Yuè Yuè sees a little girl digging in the mud, but when she peeks behind the curtain of black hair, her own face haunts her.

In a moving reunion, Yuè Yuè's cousin comes to visit and everyone is caught, laughing, in the rain. The novel shows how, despite the weight of grief, isolation, and difference, even the most delicate family bonds can knit together tightly enough for the future to overcome the past.

Author: Lily Wang
ISBN-10: 1620978563
ISBN-13: 9781620978566
Publisher: New Press
Language: English
Published: 03/26/2024
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2024
Publishers Weekly 04/01/2024