C Pam Zhang, author portrait
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C Pam Zhang

Born in Beijing, C Pam Zhang is mostly an artifact of the United States. She is the author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold, winner of the Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award and the Asian/Pacific Award for Literature; longlisted for the Booker Prize; and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and a Lambda Literary Award. Zhang’s writing appears in Best American Short Stories, The Cut, McSweeney’s Quarterly, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree.
Land of Milk and Honey
How Much of These Hills Is Gold

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Land of Milk and Honey
How Much of These Hills Is Gold

Asian American, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander Heritage Month

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Books for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

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