Simple Recipes: Stories

Now in paperback, a stunning, prize winning debut collection--seven stories that chart the uneven progress of love and that lay bare the heartbreaking truths at the core of our closest bonds. Telling of subtle betrayals and sudden departures, legacies that cannot be escaped and dreams that will never be realized, these spare, haunting stories uncannily capture who we are, how we live, why we feel and act as we do--as mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers, daughters and sons--and in so doing cast brilliant fresh light on family life today.

Madeleine Thien is the Canadian-born daughter of Malaysian-Chinese immigrants. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.