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Xiaobin Xu
🇨🇳China
Xiaobin Xu explores the intimate pressures of modern Chinese marriage in Crystal Wedding, a novel that takes the traditional milestone of a fifteenth wedding anniversary as its occasion to examine what remains when the initial romance fades and the compromises accumulate.
Xu writes domestic fiction with psychological precision, tracing the fault lines in a relationship with the patience of someone who understands that the most dramatic stories often unfold in living rooms rather than on battlefields. Crystal Wedding captures the quiet tensions of contemporary Chinese middle-class life with honesty and empathy.
