{"product_id":"coyoteland","title":"Coyoteland","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There's trouble brewing under the pristine surface of an upscale California suburb in this edgy page-turner...Hua illuminates the class and racial tensions of the neighborhood through the relationships of both the older and younger generations.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Oprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Electic...carefully constructed...an escalating drama which ultimately explodes in a catastrophic, gripping finale...Tenderhearted readers will appreciate the thoughtful outcomes Hua creates for her extensive cast.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Appealing to readers of all ages, Hua's novel winds suspensefully from suburban complacency to its fiery consummation. Her style is breezy, with slang and tech talk galore, but at its base it is coolly literary and illuminating.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Hua's writing reflects her deep attunement with society, place and time...Vanessa is a California writer in the best sense.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--San Francisco Chronicle \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Who among us doesn't enjoy a messy, layered family drama? \n\u003ci\u003eCoyoteland \u003c\/i\u003epromises to be as dynamic and explosive a suburban drama as \n\u003ci\u003eLittle Fires Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--LitHub (Most Anticipated)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Written with wit, empathy, and heart, Vanessa Hua gives us a rich suburban drama that forces us to untangle the details of our current world.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eElectric Lit\u003c\/i\u003e (Most Anticipated) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"There's trouble brewing under the pristine surface of an upscale California suburb in this edgy page-turner...Hua illuminates the class and racial tensions of the neighborhood through the relationships of both the older and younger generations. Of course, all of them are on social media, which plays an insidious role in the explosive climax.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Marion Winick, \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily \u003c\/i\u003e(Most Anticipated)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Hua's latest novel explores community, resilience, and the power of the natural world...In Coyoteland, Hua deftly explores questions of race and class\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Sona Charaipotra, \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"A standout in the wave of 'dark suburbia' novels coming out of the dystopian realities of the embattled West Coast\" \n\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Hua nimbly scrutinizes a community in conflict, deftly exposing performative hypocrisies...Hua writes with scathing clarity about half-truths and corrosive lies, exacerbated by post-pandemic amnesia eliding civility and kindness that inevitably leads to conflagratory altercations.\" \n\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Swift, surprising, and wholly captivating \n\u003ci\u003e, Coyoteland \u003c\/i\u003easks vital questions about race, class, and what it takes to truly belong. In training a discerning eye on one small, close-knit community, Vanessa Hua opens up an entire world \n\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eA tour de force from one of my all-time favorite writers, working at the very peak of her talents.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Kirstin Chen, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCounterfeit\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Vanessa Hua has crafted a riveting, multi-layered novel that brims with humor and insight. With remarkable specificity and striking timeliness, \n\u003ci\u003eCoyoteland\u003c\/i\u003e forces us to reckon with the most urgent questions of our moment while illuminating our shared longing for connection within families and communities.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Angie Kim, \u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHappiness Falls\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"With a storyteller's keen eye and deep empathy, Vanessa Hua turns fire season, real estate gambits, and a prowling coyote into an unforgettable reckoning with power, belonging, and the uneasy compromises behind every claim to home.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Jean Kwok, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Leftover Woman\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\" \n\u003ci\u003eCoyoteland\u003c\/i\u003e is the novel to make us remember that we're all foragers in the wild: humans wanting success and power and love and always wanting home; animals searching for food and survival. This convergence of many souls trying to make their way is a classic novel, in a California that Vanessa Hua limns with delicacy, precision, and the deep knowledge of an iconic place.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Susan Straight, National Book Award finalist and author of \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMecca\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \"No one writes like Vanessa Hua. With power, grace, and profound insight, Hua brings to life a community that--like the rest of today's fraught world, and whether all of its inhabitants acknowledge it or not--is in a state of ongoing crisis. A tremendous, mesmerizing gift from this one-of-a-kind storyteller.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--R. O. Kwon, nationally bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eExhibit\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Coyoteland\u003c\/i\u003e pulses with the urgency of this moment yet guides with an ageless understanding of the human heart. With characters so tenderly drawn they'll feel like family and struggles so credible you'll mistake them for your own, this is one you'll want to devour but which deserves to be savored. Propulsive, engrossing, and wise, it is a perfect homage to the pandemic era.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMargaret Wilkerson Sexton, author of \u003ci\u003eOn the Rooftop\u003c\/i\u003e, a Reese's Book Club Pick \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Vanessa Hua's writing is clear, forward, totally propulsive, and in \n\u003ci\u003eCoyoteland \u003c\/i\u003eshe attunes her colossal talent to unveiling the deep frailties and intricacies of an affluent community in the Bay Area beset with coyote attacks. \n\u003ci\u003eCoyoteland\u003c\/i\u003e was wise and wholly addicting to read, the largest pleasure.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Could Move Clouds \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Perhaps with this novel, Hua is noticing that our lives are riddled with tricksters, with humans acting like coyotes and coyotes acting like humans. Maybe that shriek in the night sounds so familiar to us because we recognize a creature who, like us, is just trying to adapt to an ever-changing new normal.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--Jackie Desforges, \u003ci\u003eAlta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eVanessa Hua\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the national bestselling novels \n\u003ci\u003eA River of Stars\u003c\/i\u003e and \n\u003ci\u003e Forbidden City\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the story collection \n\u003ci\u003eDeceit and Other Possibilities\u003c\/i\u003e, a \n\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Pick. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, the Asian\/Pacific American Award for Literature, and a Steinbeck Fellowship, as well as awards from the de Groot Foundation, Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. She was a finalist for the California Book Award, Northern California Book Award, and New American Voices Award. A former longtime columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, her award-winning work has also appeared in The \n\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, The \n\u003ci\u003e Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and The \n\u003ci\u003e Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program and elsewhere. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"From the bestselling author of A River of Stars comes a funny, heartfelt novel set in an affluent Bay Area suburb where a Chinese American family moves in and sets off a series of scandals, for fans of Celeste Ng and Emma Straub Living in El Nido, a privileged community in the hills east of Berkeley, is supposed to mean you've made it. So when Jin Chang moves there with his wife and daughters after years of scraping by, he hopes it will finally be the end of his bad luck. What his family doesn't know is that he's bending the rules for one final scheme: to make it big in real estate. Next door, Blair Belle prides herself on her progressive politics. After all, she treats their new nanny, Ana Rodriguez, and her daughter like family-even if she doesn't know them all that well. But she can't help but feel skeptical of the new neighbors, especially when she begins to suspect that Jin's plans might interfere with the Belle's own luxury development. Jin's teenage daughter Jane can tell her dad is keeping a secret, but she's also struggling to navigate El Nido's cliques. Tasha Washington has always felt isolated, too, as one of the only Black girls at the school. In the wake of a coyote attack, Jane and Tasha bond. Together, they hatch a plot to expose the town's hypocrisies. The shockwaves will rock their own families. As fire season escalates, and the roaming coyote continues to unleash chaos, the characters become embroiled in a series of scandals that will change El Nido-and their own fates-forever. Urgent, riveting, and deeply heartfelt, full of sharp wit and keen empathy, Coyoteland is at once a delicious suburban drama and an unflinching exploration of our current moment\"-- Provided by publisher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCoyoteland \u003c\/i\u003epromises to be as dynamic and explosive a suburban drama as \u003ci\u003eLITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE\u003c\/i\u003e.\" --\u003ci\u003eLitHub\u003c\/i\u003e (MOST ANTICIPATED) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"Written with WITH, EMPATHY, and HEART.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eElectric Lit\u003c\/i\u003e (MOST ANTICIPATED)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Totally PROPULSIVE.\" --Ingrid Rojas Contreras - \"A TOUR DE FORCE.\" --Kirstin Chen - \"A tremendous, MESMERIZING gift.\" --R. O. Kwon - \"UNFORGETTABLE.\" --Jean Kwok\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e - \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\"RIVETING.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAngie Kim\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the BESTSELLING author of \u003ci\u003eA River of Stars \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a FUNNY, HEARTFELT novel set in an affluent Bay Area suburb where a Chinese American family moves in and sets off a series of scandals\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiving in El Nido, a privileged community in the hills east of Berkeley, is supposed to mean you've made it. So when Jin Chang moves there with his wife and daughters after years of scraping by, he hopes it will finally be the end of his bad luck. What his family doesn't know is that he's bending the rules for one final scheme: to make it big in real estate. Next door, Blair Belle prides herself on her progressive politics. After all, she treats their new nanny, Ana Rodriguez, and her daughter like family--even if she doesn't know them all that well. But she can't help but feel skeptical of the new neighbors, especially when she begins to suspect that Jin's plans might interfere with the Belle's own luxury development. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJin's teenage daughter Jane can tell her dad is keeping a secret, but she's also struggling to navigate El Nido's cliques. Tasha Washington has always felt isolated, too, as one of the only Black girls at the school. In the wake of a coyote attack, Jane and Tasha bond. Together, they hatch a plot to expose the town's hypocrisies. The shockwaves will rock their own families. As fire season escalates, and the roaming coyote continues to unleash chaos, the characters become embroiled in a series of scandals that will change El Nido--and their own fates--forever. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUrgent, riveting, and deeply heartfelt, full of sharp wit and keen empathy, \n\u003ci\u003eCoyoteland\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a delicious suburban drama and an unflinching exploration of our current moment. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/13\/2026 (EAN 9781250395511, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 02\/01\/2026 pg. 52 (EAN 9781250395511, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/01\/2026 (EAN 9781250395511, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 05\/01\/2026 (EAN 9781250395511, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/span\u003e 12\/30\/0001 (EAN 9781250395511, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eHua, Vanessa\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eVanessa Hua\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the national bestsellers \n\u003ci\u003eA River of Stars \u003c\/i\u003eand \n\u003ci\u003eForbidden City\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \n\u003ci\u003eDeceit and Other Possibilities\u003c\/i\u003e, a \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eEditors' Choice. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature \n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eFellow, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, the \n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eAsian\/Pacific American Award for Literature, a California Arts Council Fellowship, and a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, as well as honors from the de Groot Foundation, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Asian American Journalists Association, among others. She was a finalist for the California Book Award, the Northern California Book Award, and the New American Voices Award. Previously, she was an award-winning columnist for the \n\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e. She has filed stories from China, Burma, South Korea, Ecuador, and Panama, and her work has appeared in publications including \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, and \n\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e. 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