Xinran

For eight years, Xinran hosted a groundbreaking late-night radio show in China where women called in to share stories they could tell no one else — stories of forced marriages, the Cultural Revolution, abandoned daughters, and quiet acts of defiance. Those conversations became the foundation of a literary career devoted to making Chinese women's lives visible to the world. Sky Burial tells the extraordinary true story of a woman who spent thirty years searching for her husband in Tibet.

Miss Chopsticks follows three sisters from rural China navigating the bewildering world of Nanjing, and captures the vast gulf between China's countryside and its cities with humor and heartbreak. Xinran writes with the directness of a journalist and the compassion of someone who has spent decades listening. Her work is a bridge — between China and the West, between silence and speech, between the stories women carry and the world that needs to hear them.