Chinese American – Reading While Fat

Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers and Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)

Book covers for both Vera Wong books by Jesse Q. Sutanto. The first book is black with a gray-haired woman peeking from behind window blinds. The second book is a mostly orange cover with a white-haired woman with glasses peeking from behind a door.

Jesse Q. Sutanto has created an unforgettable (if sometimes annoying) character in Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (2023) and Vera Wong’s Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) (2025)! I so enjoyed the audiobooks, each narrated by Eunice Wong. Set in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Vera Wong is a widow, set in her ways ofContinue reading “Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers and Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man)”

Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Last Night at the Telegraph Club (2021) by Malinda Lo is an award-winning queer young adult historical romance/ thriller set in 1954 San Francisco, featuring Lily Hu, a Chinese-American high school student who discovers that she is not like most girls because she likes other girls. Lily has spent most of her life sheltered inContinue reading “Last Night at the Telegraph Club”