C Pam Zhang’s debut examined an unsung period of Chinese-American history. Her new novel is all about pleasure.
Brief chats with people who are doing things that thrill them.C Pam Zhang is ready to eat some duck. It’s a warm August morning at Le Coucou and admittedly a little too early for the decadent meal we’re here to dig into: leeks flecked with roasted hazelnuts; squash blossoms battered in buckwheat and filled with crab; a seafood gratin under a blanket of sweet sabayon, duckling for two in cherries and mushrooms.
a “strange house” rented sight unseen in a small but monied suburb outside of Seattle whose residents included Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. The house hadn’t been renovated since it was built in the ’70s, and its beautiful view was offset by the cracked linoleum floors, broken heater, and isolation from neighbors who weren’t the come-over-for-game-night type.
For years Zhang assumed she had to be “all brain and no body” to be taken seriously as a woman writer. Her recent success has freed her up a bit. “Increasingly, I think I have no desire to be an intellectual, which was what I thought I was supposed to be for a long time,” she says.
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