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Praise for Wendy Lee’s novel Happy Family

“[Lee] deals with a hot-button issue in a manner neither shy nor didactic, and she invests her characters with humanity when they might easily become sociological types. Happy Family is worth reading for those reasons alone, and serves as the debut of a writer who may well do great work later on.” —San Francisco Chronicle

“Rich and multilayered, Lee’s novel explores what it means to be a part of something, whether it’s a family or a culture. Told in Hua’s sparse, somber voice, the story grabs readers from the start and doesn’t let go until the final page. A truly memorable first outing.” —Booklist (starred review)

“First novelist Lee’s craftsmanship is evident in sparse but expressive prose. She carefully and insightfully handles the contentious issue of the adoption of Chinese children.... This debut delivers on the promise of Lee’s interesting premise.” —Library Journal

“This first novel uncoils slyly, then strikes with startling yet inevitable plot developments that unfold before the reader sees them coming.... A powerful debut.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Wendy Lee’s sure-footed debut locates the raw nerve connecting two social phenomena—China’s one-child law and the adoption of Chinese babies by American parents. Hua, Lee’s stranger in a strange land, speaks in a soft but firm voice from the ineradicable margin.”—Ed Park, author of Personal Days

“Wendy Lee debuts with a quietly dangerous novel of domestic life . . . The story moves among some of the new taboos in American life as we live it now, sure-footed and unflinching, fun and smart—a remarkable first novel.” —Alexander Chee, author of Edinburgh