Rachel Heng
Rachel Heng is the author of the novels The Great Reclamation (forthcoming from Riverhead in 2022) and Suicide Club (Henry Holt, 2018), which was translated into ten languages worldwide and won the Gladstone Library Writer-In-Residence Award 2020. Rachel’s short fiction has received a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, been listed among Best American Short Stories' Distinguished Stories, and published in Glimmer Train, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, the Kenyon Review, Best Small Fictions, Best Singaporean Short Stories, and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has been listed among The Best American Essays’s Notable Essays and has been published in The Rumpus, The Telegraph, and elsewhere.
Reading List
We Did Not Marry for Money
We slip out of our homes after the men have left in their yellow hard hats and luminous vests, their charcoal suits and purple striped ties, their sky-blue uniforms, their faded T-shirts and backward baseball caps. We slip out of the empty, echoing apartments, houses, spare rooms to meet in the hostile heat of the […]