Patchwork Dolls Book Launch

Join us for the Book Launch Party of 'Patchwork Dolls' by Ysabelle Cheung! Doors open from 7pm

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☾ Entry + Book → $250 HKD

Includes a signed copy of Patchwork Dolls and a welcome drink

☾ Collector’s Entry → $500 HKD

Limited edition box with signed book + gifts prepared by the author

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In this debut story collection, Ysabelle Cheung weaves an eerie fabulism with tales that cross continents, technology, and time. Set in Hong Kong and America—between the present day and an uncannily altered future—this story collection warps the familiar rules of our world to ask: what does it mean to be Asian and a woman—living under the specter of state and technological surveillance—or trying to break free from it?

In the title story, a young woman of color realizes she can make her fortune by surgically selling her facial features to whiter, wealthier clients. In “Please, Get Out and Dance,” a group of rebels escapes a city that is literally disappearing around them—building by building, person by person—to migrate to a new home beneath the ocean, defying their government’s mandate. “Herbs” follows an elderly widow who, when the clones of her dead husband start to appear uninvited in her home, must grapple with her memories.

In each of these stories, Cheung tilts the world just slightly off its axis to bring together a haunting meditation on what it means to survive within our increasingly digitized and mechanized world.

Ysabelle Cheung is a writer and editor based in Hong Kong. Her fiction writing has appeared in Granta, Joyland, Slate, and the Rumpus. She was awarded the 2023 Diverse Writers Grant by Speculative Literature Foundation; the 2023 Aspen Words fellowship; and the 2021 Nebula Awards SFWA conference scholkarship. She is an alumni of Tin House Workshop and was in residence at the Jan Michalski Foundation in 2024. Her essays and cultural criticism have appeared in the Atlantic, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Artforum, and Lithub, among others. She is co-founder of the contemporary art gallery Property Holdings Development Group.

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