On this week’s podcast, we talk to the Chinese-American author Jenny Zhang and the Colombian writer Carolina Sanín

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On this week’s show, the musician and writer Emmy the Great talks to Jenny Zhang. Born in Shanghai and raised in New York, Zhang’s first collection of short fiction, Sour Heart, is a made up of loosely-connected stories featuring the daughters of Chinese immigrants.

We also hear from the Colombian novelist Carolina Sanín. The Children is her first novel to appear in English – a strange, fantastical tale of a woman who one night discovers a mysterious young boy on the pavement outside her apartment.

Reading list

Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang (Bloomsbury)

The Children by Carolina Sanín (MacLehose Press)