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Maggie; or, a man and a woman walk into a bar / Katie Yee.
A Chinese American woman discovers her husband is cheating with someone named Maggie; she then finds out she has cancer and names the tumor Maggie, talking to her body's new inhabitant as she embarks on a journey of grief, healing, and reclamation.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781668084212 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 200 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First Summit Books hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Summit Books, 2025.
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| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. Novels. |
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A Chinese American woman discovers her husband is cheating with someone named Maggie; she then finds out she has cancer and names the tumor Maggie, talking to her bodyâs new inhabitant as she embarks on a journey of grief, healing, and reclamation. - Simon and Schuster
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âAs with Nora Ephronâs Heartburnâ¦you read Maggie to spend time with its author.â âThe Washington Post
A Chinese American woman spins tragedy into comedy when her life falls apart in a taut, wry debut novel, âas playful as it is profoundâ (Alison Espach, author of The Wedding People)âperfect for fans of Joan Is Okay and Crying in H Mart.
A man and a woman walk into a restaurant. The woman expects a lovely night filled with endless plates of samosas. Instead, she finds out her husband is having an affair with a woman named Maggie.
A short while after, her chest starts to ache. She walks into an examination room, where she finds out the pain in her breast isnât just heartbreakâitâs cancer. She decides to call the tumor Maggie.
Unfolding in fragments over the course of the ensuing months, Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar follows the narrator as she embarks on a journey of grief, healing, and reclamation. She starts talking to Maggie (the tumor), getting acquainted with her bodyâs new inhabitant. She overgenerously creates a âGuide to My Husband: A Userâs Manualâ for Maggie (the other woman), hoping to ease the process of discovering her ex-husbandâs whims and quirks. She turns her childrenâs bedtime stories into retellings of Chinese folklore passed down by her own mother, in an attempt to make them fall in love with their shared cultureâand to maybe save herself in the process.
In the style of Jenny Offill and the tradition of Nora Ephronâs hilarious and devastating writing on heartbreak and womanhood, Maggie is a master class in transforming personal tragedy into a form of defiant comedy.
