Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks

The startling first collection of dark, surreal, and unsettling stories from the international prize-winning author of The Woman in the Purple Skirt.

Asa hungers to feed others, but her food is rejected at every turn – until she is planted, processed, and turned into chopsticks. An unnamed woman wants nothing more than to lie down, eventually becoming so sluggish that she lives for a time as a cat. People call her Happy.

Through their lives and others, these dark and playful stories about women’s bodily experiences capture our deepest desires: for agency, for assertive power, and for the slippery gift of inclusion.