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Praise for Underspin
Challengers, but make it table tennis . . . I love a character portrait and I love a bildungsroman and I love a sports story that isn't really about sports.
Lit Hub
Andre Agassi's Open meets Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad in this wildly exciting, whipsmart and beautiful novel of a tragic table tennis star, told by those who were closest to him. ...
Our Culture
Zhao's Underspin is an eruption of a debut. This novel displays a wondrous ability that renders both the central sport and lives that weave around it with meticulous precision and tremendous heart
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, National Book Award and Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize-shortlisted author of Chain-Gang All-Stars
Challengers, but make it table tennis . . . I love a character portrait and I love a bildungsroman and I love a sports story that isn't really about sports.
Lit Hub
Andre Agassi's Open meets Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad in this wildly exciting, whipsmart and beautiful novel of a tragic table tennis star, told by those who were closest to him. ...
Our Culture
Zhao's Underspin is an eruption of a debut. This novel displays a wondrous ability that renders both the central sport and lives that weave around it with meticulous precision and tremendous heart
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, National Book Award and Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize-shortlisted author of Chain-Gang All-Stars
Challengers, but make it table tennis . . . I love a character portrait and I love a bildungsroman and I love a sports story that isn't really about sports.
Lit Hub
Andre Agassi's Open meets Jennifer Egan's A Visit From the Goon Squad in this wildly exciting, whipsmart and beautiful novel of a tragic table tennis star, told by those who were closest to him. ...
Our Culture
Zhao's Underspin is an eruption of a debut. This novel displays a wondrous ability that renders both the central sport and lives that weave around it with meticulous precision and tremendous heart
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, National Book Award and Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize-shortlisted author of Chain-Gang All-Stars