Matthew Salesses

• Oct-2011
• / General Fiction
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In 1953, after the end of the Korean War, 23 POWs refused to repatriate to America. The Last Repatriate tells the story of Theodore Dickerson, a prisoner who eventually returns to his home in Virginia in the midst of the McCarthy Era. He is welcomed ...

• Feb-2013
• / Literary
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I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying, a novel in flash fiction, is a raw, honest look at parenting, commitment, morality, and the spaces that grow between and within us when we don’t know what to say. In these 115 titled chapters, a man, who learns ...

• Sep-2015
• / Literary
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In the tradition of "Native Speaker" and "The Family Fang," Matthew Salesses weaves together the tangled threads of identity, love, growing up, and relationships in his stunning first novel, "The Hundred-Year Flood." This beautiful and dreamlike d...

• Aug-2020
• / Literary
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From the bestselling author of The Hundred-Year Flood comes an incredibly entertaining and profoundly affecting tour de force about a Korean American man’s strange and ordinary attempts to exist.

Matt Kim is always tired. He keeps passing ...

• Jan-2023
• / General Fiction
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From the author of PEN/Faulkner finalist Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear and Craft in the Real World comes a "a smart, very meta take" (Kirkus Reviews) on the ways Asian Americans navigate the thorny worlds of sports and entertainment whe...