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In Chou’s signature razor-sharp style, these stories examine loneliness, projection, redemption and revenge—all while being masterfully funny and unexpected.” —NPR, Best Books of 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDoppelgängers. Mail order brides. Not-so-happy endings. From the criti­cally acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eDisorientation \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a genre-bending story collection where nothing is stranger than the truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA mail order bride from Taiwan is packed up in a cardboard box and sent via express shipping to her much older husband in California. Two teenage girls meticulously plan how to kill and cook their downstairs neighbor. An American au pair moves to Paris to find herself, only to find her actual French doppelgänger. A father reunites with his estranged daughter in unusual circumstances: as a background actor on the set of her film. A writer’s affair with a married artist tests the line between fact and fiction, self-victimization and the victimization of others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn these six singular stories and a novella that pivot from the terrible to the beautiful to the surreal, Elaine Hsieh Chou confronts the slipperiness of truth in storytelling. With razor-sharp precision and psychological acuity, she peels back the tales we tell ourselves to peer beneath them: at our treacherous desires, our self-deceptions and our capacity for cruelty, both to ourselves and each other. Expansive and provocative, \u003ci\u003eWhere Are You Really From \u003c\/i\u003eis a visionary achievement.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n                        \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElaine Hsieh Chou \u003c\/b\u003eis a Taiwanese American author and screenwriter from California. Described as “the funniest, most poignant novel of the year” by \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, her debut novel \u003ci\u003eDisorientation\u003c\/i\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors’ Choice Book, New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award Finalist and Thurber Prize Finalist. A former Rona Jaffe Graduate Fellow at New York University, her Pushcart Award–winning short fiction appears in \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlack Warrior Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House Online\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, while her essays appear in \u003ci\u003eThe Cut\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a Fred R. Brown Literary Award recipient, a Sundance Episodic Lab Fellow and a Gotham Series Creator to Watch. 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