C Pam Zhang

Honoree, 2020 5 Under 35

C Pam Zhang is the author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold and Land of Milk and Honey. She is the winner of the Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award, the Asian/Pacific Award for Literature, and the California Book Award. Learn more >

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How Much of These Hills Is Gold

ISBN 9780525537205
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House

Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. More about this book >

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C Pam Zhang

C Pam Zhang is the author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold and Land of Milk and Honey. She is the winner of the Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Award, the Asian/Pacific Award for Literature, and the California Book Award. Zhang is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 Honoree, and the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, and the American Library in Paris. Her work has been translated into 12 languages.

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