Katie Yee Maggie review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 22 juli 2025 verschijnt bij S&S/Summit Books de debuutroman van Katie Yee, de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijfster. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Katie Yee Maggie review en recensie
- “Feels pleasurably like clicking through the back archives of a webcomic or lingering over lunch wine with an old friend. As with Nora Ephron’s Heartburn…you read Maggie to spend time with its author.” (Sophia Nguyen, The Washington Post)
- “Through impeccably witty fragmented reflections and in just under 200 pages, Yee transforms life’s most brutal bombshells into spectacular fireworks, glittering with humor, insight, and a dazzling display of best friendship against the darkest of backdrops.” (Charley Burlock, Oprah Daily)
- “In this comedic and heartbreaking debut novel, the narrator confronts her grief head-on, from naming the growing tumor inside of her Maggie to developing a user manual guide for her ex’s new woman.” (Harper’s Bazaar)
Maggie
or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar
- Auteur: Katie Yee (Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: S&S/Summit Books
- Verschijnt: 22 juli 2025
- Omvang: 208 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
- Prijs: $ 26,99 / $ 12,99 / $ 16,99
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Katie Yee
A Chinese American woman spins tragedy into comedy when her life falls apart in a taut, wry debut novel that grapples with grief, motherhood, and myths.
A man and a woman walk into a restaurant. The woman expects a lovely night filled with endless plates of samosas. Instead, she finds out her husband is having an affair with a woman named Maggie.
A short while after, her chest starts to ache. She walks into an examination room, where she finds out the pain in her breast isn’t just heartbreak—it’s cancer. She decides to call the tumor Maggie.
Unfolding in fragments over the course of the ensuing months, Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar follows the narrator as she embarks on a journey of grief, healing, and reclamation. She starts talking to Maggie (the tumor), getting acquainted with her body’s new inhabitant. She overgenerously creates a “Guide to My Husband: A User’s Manual” for Maggie (the other woman), hoping to ease the process of discovering her ex-husband’s whims and quirks. She turns her children’s bedtime stories into retellings of Chinese folklore passed down by her own mother, in an attempt to make them fall in love with their shared culture—and to maybe save herself in the process.
In the style of Jenny Offill and the tradition of Nora Ephron’s hilarious and devastating writing on heartbreak and womanhood, Maggie is a master class in transforming personal tragedy into a form of defiant comedy.
Katie Yee is a writer from Brooklyn. She has received fellowships from the Center for Fiction, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and Kundiman. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, No Tokens, The Believer, the Washington Square Review, Triangle House, Epiphany, and Literary Hub. By day, she works at the Brooklyn Museum. By night, she writes, usually under the watch of her judgmental rescue dog, Ollie.