[2] Yan completed a PhD in comparative literature at Sichuan University and is the Chair of the China Young Writers Association.
[3] People’s Literature (Renmin Wenxue 人民文学) magazine recently chose her – in a list reminiscent of The New Yorker's ‘20 under 40’ – as one of China's twenty future literary masters.
[2][8] Reviewer Chelsea Leu wrote Yan Ge’s English debut is preoccupied with language, its failures, and its relationship to human emotions and the raw reality – the 'food' – of life.
These stories map out the distance between the head and the gut – the way language can fail to convey the deepest, most visceral facts of life.
"[8]Reviewer Sindya Bhanoo wrote that the stories "explore the power of language across the Chinese diaspora to either bring people together or push them apart.