Reckoning With the Desires of China’s One-Child Generation

I first encountered M Lin’s writing during our second year of graduate school in the MFA program at Brooklyn College. Her stories were, on my first reading, luminous and unpretentious, chronicling the often conflicting sexual, emotional, and political desires of women from China’s millennial One-Child Generation. Her debut collection, The Memory Museum, is a nostalgic but unflinching expansion of this vision, and a compelling examination of how China’s stratospheric growth has fractured the relationship between its theoretically collective past, uncertain present, and globalized future.

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