Coyoteland

"Swift, surprising, and wholly captivating, Coyoteland asks 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. A tour de force from one of my all-time favorite writers, working at the very peak of her talents."
—Kirstin Chen, New York Times bestselling author of Counterfeit

“Vanessa Hua has crafted a riveting, multi-layered novel that brims with humor and insight. With remarkable specificity and striking timeliness, Coyoteland forces us to reckon with the most urgent questions of our moment while illuminating our shared longing for connection within families and communities. I couldn’t put it down.”

—Angie Kim, New York Times bestselling author of Happiness Falls 

”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.”

—Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of The Leftover Woman

"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."—R. O. Kwon, nationally bestselling author of Exhibit

“Vanessa Hua’s writing is clear, forward, totally propulsive, and in Coyoteland she attunes her colossal talent to unveiling the deep frailties and intricacies of an affluent community in the Bay Area beset with coyote attacks.I was wise and wholly addicting to read, the largest pleasure. “

— Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Man Who Could Move Clouds

"Coyoteland 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."
—Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, author of On the Rooftop, a Reese’s Book Club Pick

"Coyoteland 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."
—Susan Straight, National Book Award finalist and author of Mecca

Awarded a California Arts Council fellowship and the de Groot Foundation grant.

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