Let's Go Let's Go Let's Go -- Cleo Qian, Paperback

The electric, unsettling, and often surreal stories in LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO explore the alienated, technology-mediated lives of restless Asian and Asian American women today. A woman escapes into dating simulations to forget her best friend's abandonment; a teenager begins to see menacing omens on others' bodies after her double eyelid surgery; reunited schoolmates are drawn into the Japanese mountains to participate in an uncanny social experiment; a supernatural karaoke machine becomes a K-pop star's channel for redemption. In every story, characters refuse dutiful, docile stereotypes. They are ready to explode, to question conventions. Their compulsions tangle with unrequited longing and queer desire in their search for something ineffable across cities, countries, and virtual worlds.

With precision and provocation, Cleo Qian's immersive debut jolts us into the reality of lives fragmented by screens, relentless consumer culture, and the flattening pressures of modern society--and asks how we might hold on to tenderness against the impulses within us.


Author: Cleo Qian
Publisher: Tin House
Published: 08/15/2023
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.49h x 5.58w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781953534927

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 06/19/2023
Kirkus Reviews 07/01/2023
Booklist 08/01/2023 pg. 23

About the Author
Cleo Qian is a writer from southern California. Her work has been published in The Guardian, Shenandoah, Pleiades, The Common and elsewhere. She lives in New York City. LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO is her first book.