Self-Portrait with Ghost: Short Stories

A couple's relationship falters against the backdrop of the California wildfires. A widow catches a mysterious skin disease in a country where bleaching products are a routine part of a woman's beauty regime. Three women with unusual abilities find on another in a war-plagued world both like and not like our own. These stories are a reflection of the turbulent past decade and an examination of the ways we lived through those years. They explore intimacy and isolation, coming-of-age and coming to terms with past mistakes, fraying relationships and surprising moments of connection. Moving between San Francisco and China, and from unsparing realism to genre-bending delight, Self-Portrait With Ghost considers what it means to live in an age of heightened self-consciousness, with seemingly endless access to knowledge but little actual power.