Vanessa Hua presents COYOTELAND

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Join us on Tuesday, May `19 in Remington to celebrate the release of Vanessa Hua's new novel, Coyoteland! Vanessa will be in conversation with author Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes.

About Coyoteland:

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.

Coyoteland releases on Tuesday, May 12. Preorder your copy here!

Vanessa Hua is the author of the national bestselling novels A River of Stars and Forbidden City, as well as the story collection Deceit and Other Possibilities, a New York Times Editors’ Pick. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, a de Groot Foundation Writer of Note Grant, as well as awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association, among other accolades. She was a finalist for the California Book Award, Northern California Book Award, and New American Voices Award. A former longtime columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, her award-winning work has also appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She has filed stories from China, Burma, South Korea, Panama, and Ecuador. She teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program, Sewanee Writers Conference, and elsewhere. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.

Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes is the author of Clear Water (forthcoming on Flatiron Books, in November 2026), Are We Ever Our Own (winner of the 2022 BOA Short Fiction Prize) and The Sleeping World. She has received fellowships and awards from Hedgebrook, Willapa Bay Artists in Residency, Yaddo, the Millay Colony, Blue Mountain Center, and Bread Loaf. She is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland. She grew up in Wisconsin and lives in Maryland with her family.

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