Kat Tang Five-Star Stranger

Kat Tang Five-Star Stranger recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de debuutroman van de Chinees-Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 6 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Scribner de eerste roman van de in China geboren maar in de Verenigde Staten woonachtige schrijfster Kat Tang. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Kat Tang Five-Star Stranger recensie en review

“Provocative, self-assured…Tang plays deftly with the conventions of romantic comedy… A smart look at people-pleasing taken to its illogical extreme.” (Kirkus)
“Moving…Tang uses clean prose to bring complex characters to life. An emotional character study that doesn’t rely on easy answers to complicated questions of identity, isolation, and familial love.” (Library Journal)
“Tang’s debut shines, marrying hurt and heart in a character readers will root for and connect with…In smooth and affecting prose, Tang draws a sharp portrait.” (Booklist)

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van de Chinees-Amerikaanse schrijfster Kat Tang

Would you hire someone to be the best man at your wedding? Your stand-in brother? Your husband?

In an age where online ratings are all-powerful, Five-Star Stranger follows the adventures of a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app—a place where users can hire a pretend fiancé, a wingman, or an extra mourner for a funeral. Referred to only as Stranger, the narrator navigates New York City under the guise of characters he plays, always maintaining a professional distance from his clients.

But, when a nosy patron threatens to upend his long-term role as father to a young girl, Stranger begins to reckon with his attachment to his pretend daughter, her mother, and his own fraught past. Now, he must confront the boundaries he has drawn and explore the legacy of abandonment that shaped his life.

Five-Star Stranger is a strikingly vivid novel about the commodification of relationships in a gig economy, isolation in a hyperconnected world, and the risk of asking for what we want from those who cannot give. This is the story of a man who finds out who he is by being anyone but himself.

Kat Tang is a graduate of Columbia’s MFA program where she taught as an Undergraduate Writing Fellow. Born in China, relocated to Japan, and raised in California, she is fascinated by how we make and fake human connection in a technologically evolving world. Her short stories and graphic narratives have appeared in Electric Literature, The Margins, Pigeon Pages, and elsewhere. She currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

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