Cecilia

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A surreal novella about the intensity and eroticism of girlhood friendships, the ecstasy of desire and disgust, matriarchal mythmaking and the haunting presence of crows.

Seven, who works as a cleaner at a chiropractor’s office, reencounters Cecilia, a woman who has obsessed her since their school days. As the two of them board the same bus — each dubiously claiming not to be following the other — their chance meeting spurs a series of intensely vivid and corporeal memories.

Smart, subversive and gripping, Cecilia is a winding, misty road trip through bodily transformation, inextricable histories of desire and violence, diaspora and obsessive love.

©2024 K-Ming Chang (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Critics Review

[A] thrillingly disorienting novella of queer love and intimate obsession… In this author’s highly original voice, language writhes into new, ultra-sensual imaginings and leads us into an uncanny world where the familiar is made strange

Guardian

Chang continues to captivate with her lyrical prose and rich storytelling… Cecilia‘s intricate narrative structure and magical realism creates a hauntingly beautiful tapestry of emotions & experiences. Chang is an inventive voice that deserves to be heard

Glamour

Rowdy and razor-sharp, luminescent and enchanting, K-Ming Chang is an utter master of the strange intimacies of the body

Alexandra Kleeman

If you’re not reading K-MIng Chang, then what are you reading?… A surreal cascade of girlhood memories about desire, queerness, and obsession. Cecilia is at once erotic and repulsive, carnal and tasty. In a word: delicious

Literary Hub

Erotic and strange, captivating and twisted: This one’s for the freaks (complimentary)

Bustle

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