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the latest Full Chinese name at birth As of Summer 2009, Xu Xi was elected faculty chair, MFA in Writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
HABIT OF A FOREIGN SKY (novel) Haven Books, 2010
(shortlisted for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize) What happens when an intelligent, a high-powered woman executive relinquishes all responsibilities? Chinese New Year, 1998. Somewhere between Hong Kong and New York, life does an abrupt shift for Gail Szeto (46), when her mother, her last family member, is killed in an accident. For Gail, a mixed-race, single mother who buried her young son less than two years prior, all she has left is a hard-won career as the VP of Northeast Trust, a global investment bank. Life rapidly goes into free fall for this woman with a complicated past, who was once so sure of her direction in life, who can now see no clear future path. An international cast of characters people Habit of a Foreign Sky, this novel of a Sino-American balance of power, witnessed through private, global lives in New York, Hong Kong and Shanghai. Australian author and prize judge Nicholas Jose calls the novel "an indispensable work of contemporary fiction by an important novelist at the height of her powers . . . the Jamesian complexity of subtle moral and material conflicts makes for a compelling, seductive reading experience . . . Her book is movingly intimate and exhilaratingly grand."  HK Magazine 'Up Close' Interview (1.7MB)AgentsINTERNATIONAL AGENT FOR ALL RIGHTS
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