Daniel Tam-Claiborne in Conversation With Omar El Akkad

Daniel Tam-Claiborne’s Transplants (Regalo Press) is a harrowing and poignant novel following two young women in pursuit of kinship and self-discovery who yearn to survive in a world that doesn’t know where either of them belong. On a university campus in rural Qixian, Lin and Liz make an improbable pair: Lin, a Chinese student closer to her menagerie of pets than to her peers, and Liz, a Chinese American teacher grieving her mother’s sudden death. They’re each met with hostility — Lin by her classmates, who mock her for dating a white [...]