Bestiary

side by side series of the cover of K-Ming Chang's Bestiary

“The characters in the novel are shameless about their bodies”: An Interview with K-Ming Chang

Part myth, part bildungsroman, part queer love story with a lyric, fabulist delivery, Chang’s debut novel, out today, is a novel of the body—its mundane functions, its power to create life, the ways in which it decays—as well as what can be done to a body—by war, from domestic violence, when aroused.