Coyoteland
A Novel
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- 予約注文
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- リリース予定日：2026年5月12日
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- ¥1,700
発行者による作品情報
"Coyoteland promises to be as dynamic and explosive a suburban drama as LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE." —LitHub (MOST ANTICIPATED)
"Written with WITH, EMPATHY, and HEART." —Electric Lit (MOST ANTICIPATED)
"Totally PROPULSIVE." —Ingrid Rojas Contreras • "A TOUR DE FORCE." —Kirstin Chen • "A tremendous, MESMERIZING gift." —R. O. Kwon • "UNFORGETTABLE." —Jean Kwok • "RIVETING."—Angie Kim
From the BESTSELLING author of A River of Stars comes a FUNNY, HEARTFELT novel set in an affluent Bay Area suburb where a Chinese American family moves in and sets off a series of scandals
Living in El Nido, a privileged community in the hills east of Berkeley, is supposed to mean you’ve made it. So when Jin Chang moves there with his wife and daughters after years of scraping by, he hopes it will finally be the end of his bad luck. What his family doesn’t know is that he’s bending the rules for one final scheme: to make it big in real estate. Next door, Blair Belle prides herself on her progressive politics. After all, she treats their new nanny, Ana Rodriguez, and her daughter like family—even if she doesn’t know them all that well. But she can’t help but feel skeptical of the new neighbors, especially when she begins to suspect that Jin’s plans might interfere with the Belle’s own luxury development.
Jin’s teenage daughter Jane can tell her dad is keeping a secret, but she’s also struggling to navigate El Nido’s cliques. Tasha Washington has always felt isolated, too, as one of the only Black girls at the school. In the wake of a coyote attack, Jane and Tasha bond. Together, they hatch a plot to expose the town’s hypocrisies. The shockwaves will rock their own families. As fire season escalates, and the roaming coyote continues to unleash chaos, the characters become embroiled in a series of scandals that will change El Nido—and their own fates—forever.
Urgent, riveting, and deeply heartfelt, full of sharp wit and keen empathy, Coyoteland is at once a delicious suburban drama and an unflinching exploration of our current moment.
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A real estate feud drives this riveting novel from Hua (Forbidden City). Jin Chang moves his family into an exclusive Bay Area enclave with plans to flip their new house. He immediately butts heads with his busybody neighbor, Blair Belle, a tech worker whose company makes a camera called an Orb, which she uses to monitor her home and surveil the neighborhood. Meanwhile, Blair's husband has begun to build a nearby complex called Bellavista, to include affordable housing, which would help single mother Minerva Washington keep her teen daughter, Tasha, in the neighborhood's coveted school district. When Jin's spirited 15-year-old daughter, Jane, rescues Tasha from a coyote attack, the two become close friends. Unbeknownst to the Belles, Jin is behind an anti-Bellavista campaign, which causes further tensions between Blair and a rival she assumes is orchestrating it. Jane winds up in her own conflict with the Belles' Princeton-bound daughter, Quinn, after Quinn catches Jane reading her diary, and the plot's many strands come to a head during a party Quinn throws at the Changs' house while they're away. Hua's spectacular character work offers complex and surprising views into the many players' motivations. Readers will find much to love in this multilayered page-turner.
