Silver Repetition

“Fiercely poetic and luminous with surrealist imagery, Silver Repetition is a deeply moving and humane exploration of fractured self, deep longing, lost memory, diaspora, and aching family ties. Here is a gorgeous book that reads like a luxurious dreamscape from beginning to end. Wang is a thrilling and captivating new voice in contemporary fiction.”
—Lindsay Wong, author of The Woo-Woo and Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality

“Like hyacinth bulbs, Lily Wang’s Silver Repetition is iridescently and culturally fierce. Acheful with familial bonds, Wang’s narration is hypnotic and rich and intimate and wild, with sharp, overgrown private silvery remembrance that shatters the elevated symbiosis between memoir and memory, mourning and materiality, ancestry and delivery. Highly attentive to details and inoculated with intermittent poetic splendors, it is a diurnal, highly imaginative work that sharpens all our senses and makes us appreciate each second of our lives beyond and within the diaspora.”
—Vi Khi Nao, author of Swimming with Dead Stars

"Ghostly, fishy, and deeply moving. With sensitivity and grace, Lily Wang captures all the fleeting and contradictory feelings that come from leaving one world behind and entering another. Family members are echo chambers, not empty but rather overflowing with the sounds and sensations of other moments, some mere seconds past, others distant and impossible."
—Larissa Lai, author of The Lost Century

"Lily Wang’s Silver Repetition illumines the forbidden shadows of memory and loss. Wang interrogates the many selves and the words which confront us: bú shì wŏ. Their language burns down a wick as it exposes how we become what we refuse to let go."
—E.J. Koh, author of The Magical Language of Other