Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bestiary | 2020 | K-Ming Chang | Buy |
| 2 | Organ Meats | 2023 | K-Ming Chang | Buy |
| 3 | Cecilia | 2024 | K-Ming Chang | Buy |
K-Ming Chang’s three standalone novels share a fixation on folklore, the body, and what happens when the two collide. Bestiary, her 2020 debut, follows a Taiwanese American family across three generations. After the grandmother tells a folktale about Hu Gu Po, a tiger spirit who eats children, the youngest daughter begins growing a tiger tail. The novel was longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.
Organ Meats, published in 2023, tells the story of two best friends in a Taiwanese American neighborhood who become obsessed with the stray dogs around them. The line between human and animal dissolves as the story progresses. Cecilia, a novella from Coffee House Press in 2024, is an erotic and surreal story about a young woman named Seven who encounters a former classmate and is pulled into a disorienting series of memories and desires. Cecilia was part of Coffee House Press’s NVLA series, which publishes short works that push against the boundaries of traditional novel form.