We Two Alone

Set on five continents and spanning nearly a century,We Two Alonetraces the long arc and evolution of the Chinese immigrant experience. A young laundry boy risks his life to play organized hockey in Canada in the 1920s. A Canadian couple gets caught in the outbreak of violence in Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The Consul-General of China attempts to save lives following Kristallnacht in Vienna. A family struggles to buy a home in post-colonial South Africa, during the rise of apartheid. An actor in New York struggles to keep his career alive while yearning to reconcile with his estranged wife.

From the vulnerable and disenfranchised to the educated and elite, the characters in this extraordinary collection embody the diversity of the diaspora at key moments in history and in contemporary times. Jack Wang has crafted deeply affecting stories that not only subvert expectations but contend with mortality and delicately draw out the intimacies and failings of love. (FromAstoria)

We Two Alonewon the 2021 Danuta Gleed Literary Award for best first short story collection.

We Two Aloneis on theCanada Reads2022 longlist.

Jack Wang is originally from Vancouver and now lives inIthaca, N.Y.He is an associate professor in the Department of Writing at Ithaca College.Jack Wang's short stories have been published inJoylandMagazine,The Humber Literary ReviewandThe New Quarterly.We Two Aloneis his first book.

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