Four Treasures of the Sky -- Jenny Tinghui Zhang - Hardcover

Engrossing...Epic (The New York Times Book Review) - Transporting (Washington Post) - Propulsive (Oprah Daily) - Surreal and sprawling (NPR) - An absolute must-read (BuzzFeed) - Radiant (BookPage)

Engulfing, bighearted, and heartbreaking." --Ann Patchett

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

A dazzling debut novel set against the backdrop of the Chinese Exclusion Act, about a Chinese girl fighting to claim her place in the 1880s American West

Daiyu never wanted to be like the tragic heroine for whom she was named, revered for her beauty and cursed with heartbreak. But when she is kidnapped and smuggled across an ocean from China to America, Daiyu must relinquish the home and future she imagined for herself. Over the years that follow, she is forced to keep reinventing herself to survive. From a calligraphy school, to a San Francisco brothel, to a shop tucked into the Idaho mountains, we follow Daiyu on a desperate quest to outrun the tragedy that chases her. As anti-Chinese sentiment sweeps across the country in a wave of unimaginable violence, Daiyu must draw on each of the selves she has been--including the ones she most wants to leave behind--in order to finally claim her own name and story.

At once a literary tour de force and a groundbreaking work of historical fiction, Four Treasures of the Sky announces Jenny Tinghui Zhang as an indelible new voice. Steeped in untold history and Chinese folklore, this novel is a spellbinding feat.

Author: Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 04/05/2022
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.53w x 1.13d
ISBN: 9781250811783

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2021 pg. 10
Publishers Weekly 02/21/2022
Booklist 02/15/2022 pg. 27
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2022
Library Journal 04/01/2022 pg. 82
Shelf Awareness 04/05/2022

About the Author
Jenny Tinghui Zhang is a Chinese-American writer. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in Apogee, Ninth Letter, Passages North, The Rumpus, HuffPost, The Cut, Catapult, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from the University of Wyoming and has received support from Kundiman, Tin House, and VONA/Voices. She was born in Changchun, China and grew up in Austin, Texas, where she currently lives. Four Treasures of the Sky is her debut.