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JOAN IS OKAY
A sly, powerful, deeply moving novel about a female doctor forced by crisis to reckon with a life optimized for work, from the award-winning author of CHEMISTRY.
Joan is a thirtysomething ICU physician at a busy New York City hospital. She's a workaholic with little interest in having friends, let alone lovers, and her medical colleagues have trouble reading her, misreading her dedication to work as ambition. The daughter of Chinese parents who immigrated to America to secure the American dream, Joan sometimes looks up and wonders where her true roots lie: at the hospital, where her white coat makes her feel needed, or with her family, who try to shape her life by their own social and cultural expectations.
After Joan and her brother, Fang, were grown, their parents moved back to China, hoping to live out the balance of their years in their homeland. But when Joan's father suddenly dies, her mother returns for a visit to America, determined to connect with her daughter while staying with her son on his sprawling Greenwich estate. The hospital, and life on the Upper West Side, provide Joan some cover--until things shift yet again. First a compelling man moves into the apartment next door and tries to draw Joan out of her comfort zone, and into the lives of their neighbors. Then, at the hospital, a new HR "wellness initiative" requires Joan to take a mandatory leave of absence, to foster a better work/life balance. On the cusp of the Chinese New Year and for lack of better options, Joan decamps to Fang's to regain her equilibrium--until the day she must return to the city to face a crisis larger than anything she's encountered before.
Witty, poignant, piercingly insightful, JOAN IS OKAY introduces us to a marvelously complicated woman who can't help but be anyone but herself.
Weike Wang is a graduate of Harvard University, where she earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry and her doctorate in public health. She received her MFA from Boston University. Her debut novel, CHEMISTRY, won the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award, a 2018 Whiting Award, as well as the John C. Zacharis Award. CHEMISTRY is currently being optioned for a feature film by Amazon Studios. Weike was named a "5 Under 35" honoree of the National Book Foundation and her short story, "Omakase" first appeared in The New Yorker and was published in the 2019 Best American Short Stories. Her fiction has been published in literary magazines, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, and Ploughshares. Weike currently lives in New York City with her dog, Biscuit.
After Joan and her brother, Fang, were grown, their parents moved back to China, hoping to live out the balance of their years in their homeland. But when Joan's father suddenly dies, her mother returns for a visit to America, determined to connect with her daughter while staying with her son on his sprawling Greenwich estate. The hospital, and life on the Upper West Side, provide Joan some cover--until things shift yet again. First a compelling man moves into the apartment next door and tries to draw Joan out of her comfort zone, and into the lives of their neighbors. Then, at the hospital, a new HR "wellness initiative" requires Joan to take a mandatory leave of absence, to foster a better work/life balance. On the cusp of the Chinese New Year and for lack of better options, Joan decamps to Fang's to regain her equilibrium--until the day she must return to the city to face a crisis larger than anything she's encountered before.
Witty, poignant, piercingly insightful, JOAN IS OKAY introduces us to a marvelously complicated woman who can't help but be anyone but herself.
Weike Wang is a graduate of Harvard University, where she earned her undergraduate degree in chemistry and her doctorate in public health. She received her MFA from Boston University. Her debut novel, CHEMISTRY, won the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award, a 2018 Whiting Award, as well as the John C. Zacharis Award. CHEMISTRY is currently being optioned for a feature film by Amazon Studios. Weike was named a "5 Under 35" honoree of the National Book Foundation and her short story, "Omakase" first appeared in The New Yorker and was published in the 2019 Best American Short Stories. Her fiction has been published in literary magazines, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Glimmer Train, and Ploughshares. Weike currently lives in New York City with her dog, Biscuit.
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Published 2022-01-25 by Random House |