News


News, Blurbs Katherine Lin News, Blurbs Katherine Lin

“A wry and exciting debut”

You Can't Stay Here Forever is a keen and expansive rumination on love, betrayal, and class set between the Bay Area and the South of France. A wry and exciting debut that while set in rarified luxury, portrays universal struggles of friendship, work and marriage.” –Kathy Wang, author of Family Trust and Impostor Syndrome 

“You Can't Stay Here Forever is a keen and expansive rumination on love, betrayal, and class set between the Bay Area and the South of France. A wry and exciting debut that while set in rarified luxury, portrays universal struggles of friendship, work and marriage.” –Kathy Wang, author of Family Trust and Impostor Syndrome 

Read More
News, Blurbs Katherine Lin News, Blurbs Katherine Lin

“DELIGHTFUL, POIGNANT, AND THRILLING”

"Katherine Lin's You Can't Stay Here Forever is compulsively readable, so much so that it's easy to overlook the astute intelligence that permeates every page. Reading this novel is like falling in love: delightful, poignant, and thrilling." –Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Translation and Searching for Sylvie Lee 

"Katherine Lin's You Can't Stay Here Forever is compulsively readable, so much so that it's easy to overlook the astute intelligence that permeates every page. Reading this novel is like falling in love: delightful, poignant, and thrilling."
-Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Translation and Searching for Sylvie Lee 

Read More
News, Blurbs Katherine Lin News, Blurbs Katherine Lin

“…sinuous and Bacchic prose”

“This glistening debut is filled with all the wanderlust, rage, and longing of early adulthood, and proves–in sinuous and Bacchic prose–that  the dissolution of a friendship is a terrifying prospect.” –Courtney Maum, author of The Year of the Horses 

“This glistening debut is filled with all the wanderlust, rage, and longing of early adulthood, and proves–in sinuous and Bacchic prose–that  the dissolution of a friendship is a terrifying prospect.” –Courtney Maum, author of The Year of the Horses 

Read More
News, Blurbs Katherine Lin News, Blurbs Katherine Lin

“brilliantly observed…handled with the lightest of touches.”

“I was totally drawn in from the first page of You Can’t Stay Here Forever. All the contradictions of Ellie’s situation as the American child of East Asian immigrants are explored with empathy and nuance, and the book’s brilliantly observed, horribly recognizable moments are handled with the lightest of touches.” –Emily Itami, author of Fault Lines 

“I was totally drawn in from the first page of You Can’t Stay Here Forever. All the contradictions of Ellie’s situation as the American child of East Asian immigrants are explored with empathy and nuance, and the book’s brilliantly observed, horribly recognizable moments are handled with the lightest of touches.” –Emily Itami, author of Fault Lines 

Read More