Daydreamers

FC2 | 2025 | paperback | 9781573662123

"A dreamy, unsettling book that radiates intelligence and beauty … Alvin Lu is one of the finest American novelists working today."

—Shawna Yang Ryan, author of Green Island

To solve a love-triangle murder, a Taiwanese novelist takes a California road trip with her friend’s son into the heart of the émigré Chinese literary world, where rumors swirl, money talks, and memoirs, novels, and translations compose the source material for a twenty-first-century Rashomon. 

Cycling through nested literary forms and genres, and fiction and reality, Daydreamers unravels a mystery set against the greater mystery of American identity, by means of the stories immigrants make of their pasts, presents, and desired futures in a protean new world.

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