K-Ming Chang Books in Order

After hearing her mother’s story about a tiger spirit, a Taiwanese American girl grows a tail. As family myths become tangible and she falls for a neighborhood girl, her grandmother’s mysterious letters offer a way to confront their inherited secrets.

These stories follow Asian American women through strange encounters with family, desire, migration, and inherited memory. Ghostly cousins, transformed advertisements, difficult mothers-in-law, and secretive widows inhabit a world where ordinary relationships take on unsettling mythic shapes.

Anita and Rainie bind themselves together through a shared canine ancestry and a promise made beneath a sycamore tree. When separation traps Anita in a dangerous dreamworld, Rainie must find a way to restore her friend’s deteriorating body.

Seven encounters Cecilia, the woman who has occupied her thoughts since their school days. Sharing a bus ride unleashes memories and desires that blur past and present, drawing Seven through the tangled aftermath of their girlhood connection.

Three cousins spending summer in their grandmother’s house encounter a starving demon who demands they kill a man. Pulled between familiar rooms and a supernatural realm, the girls confront the grief and violence woven through their family.

Returning to an imaginary world she created with a childhood friend, Chang explores girlhood as a space of play, secret identities, and queer possibility. This essay asks how childhood imagination might challenge the limits of adult life.