(Fiction, 304 pp. 2020)
A brilliant mathematics prodigy, Katherine grows up uncertain about other aspects of her identity. She puzzles over her apparent Chinese and American heritages, while blazing a singular and dazzling path through arithmetic competitions consisting entirely of astonished (and alarmed) boys and men. Katherine discovers the power of performing femininity as she secures herself a precarious place within the old boys’ network of math geniuses, even while she struggles to find a balance between love and integrity. Eventually, she discovers that the key to her math mastery is bound up in her family’s mysterious legacy.
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Q&A with Steph Opitz, The San Francisco Chronicle, June 24, 2019
Q&A with Staff of Poets & Writers, June 18, 2019
Q&A with Kaia Gallagher, The Coachella Review, 2023
Author Interview with Pik-Shuen Fung, The Margins, Asian American Writers Workshop, April 29, 2020
Author Interview with Steph Cha, Guernica Magazine, July 11, 2019
