"The Shady Husband Mystery is its own literary subgenre....Katherine Lin enters the canon with her debut novel...a subtle, character-driven story about interracial marriage...[and] opposites-attract friendship...Through memories, Lin skillfully reveals Ellie and Ian’s marriage of contrasts...Lin is deft and never overbearing in her handling of race..." The New York Times Book Review

Katherine Lin

Katherine Lin is a writer and attorney based in the San Francisco Bay Area. You Can’t Stay Here Forever is her debut novel, and was named a must-read book of summer by Good Morning America, People, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and Stanford Law School. 

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