Linda Huang publishes award-winning book of short stories

EECS instructional system administrator Linda Huang (who publishes under the name Yang Huang) has just released her second book, a collection of short stories titled “My Old Faithful: Stories” (University of Massachusetts Press).   The ten interconnected stories, which take place in China and the United States over a thirty-year period, merge to paint a nuanced portrait of family life, full of pain, surprises, and subtle acts of courage. Richly textured narratives from the mother, father, son, and daughters of a close-knit Chinese family play out against the backdrop of China’s social and economic change.  “My Old Faithful” won the 2017 Juniper Prize for Fiction , an award established by the University of Massachusetts Press to honor outstanding novels and short story collections.  Mrs. Dalloway’s bookstore in Berkeley is hosting an event, “Yang Huang in Conversation with Kaitlin Solimine,” on Thursday, April 26 at 7:30 pm.  Huang’s debut novel, “Living Treasures,” won the Nautilus Book Award Silver Medal in Fiction in 2014.