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Winner of the 2020 PEN America Literary Award for Debut Short Story Collection, Mimi Lok's Last of Her Name narrates the interconnected lives of diasporic women from ’80s UK suburbia to WWII Hong Kong and contemporary California

Mimi Lok’s Last of Her Name is an eye-opening story collection about the intimate, interconnected lives of diasporic women and the histories they are born into. Set in a wide range of time periods and locales, including ’80s UK suburbia, WWII Hong Kong and contemporary urban California, the book features an eclectic cast of outsiders: among them, an elderly housebreaker, wounded lovers and kung-fu fighting teenage girls. Last of Her Name offers a meditation on female desire and resilience, family and the nature of memory.

ISBN-13: 9781885030610

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Kaya Pr

Publication Date: 10-22-2019

Pages: 192

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)

Mimi Lok is a Chinese writer and editor. Born and raised in the UK, she holds an MFA in creative writing from San Francisco State University. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in McSweeney’s, Lucky Peach, Nimrod and Hyphen, among other publications. She is the cofounder, Executive Director and Editor of Voice of Witness, an award-winning nonprofit that illuminates human rights issues through an oral-history book series (published by Haymarket and Verso) and a national education program.