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There are times when Chang-rae Lee Pulitzer fiction finalist, PEN/Hemingway Award winner, English professor at Stanford University, beloved novelist with a sixth one recently released wonders if he can write.
My Year Abroad, by Chang-rae Lee
477 pages
RIVERHEAD
With every book he has published, he said, he has thought about the accolades he has received since his 1995 debut, “Native Speaker,” and thought, “This is all mirrors. It could dissipate. It’s fog.”
Over the years that Lee spent working on his latest novel, “My Year Abroad,” there were many moments, he said during a video interview from Honolulu, where he had spent most of January, “where I was absolutely sure I was on the wrong track and that I was this close to failure and throwing it away.”
He Canât Carry a Tune, but Chang-rae Lee Has a Song to Sing
âMy Year Abroad,â his sixth novel, is about letting yourself plunge into the world, even when it hurts. Heâs been thinking about that a lot over these past, painful months.
“I wanted this book to be a bodily experience,” Chang-rae Lee said of his latest novel, “My Year Abroad.”Credit.Michelle Mishina Kunz for The New York Times
Published Jan. 31, 2021Updated Feb. 5, 2021
There are times when Chang-rae Lee â Pulitzer fiction finalist, PEN/Hemingway Award winner, English professor at Stanford, beloved novelist with a sixth one on the way â wonders if he can write.