Tomb Sweeping is a 2023 short story collection by American writer Alexandra Chang, published by Ecco Press.
Set across China and the United States, the book's fifteen stories explore family, relationships, loneliness, and the American Dream.
[1] Chang's first short story collection, the book made several year-end best-of and must-read lists.
"[2] In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called it a "powerful and delightfully strange debut collection.
"[4] The Millions wrote that "Although the emotions and relationships in Tomb Sweeping feel at times provisionally sketched, the collection coheres on a subconscious level, revealing the self-centered desires that lurk in the most seemingly neutral acts of intergenerational care.