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Katie Yee
Structured by the classic bar joke, Katie Yee’s debut novel tackles dark themes with levity. The story’s unnamed narrator learns her husband is having an affair. Shortly after receiving that news, she receives a breast cancer diagnosis. She then names her tumor “Maggie” after the other woman.
Maggie, or, A Man and A Woman Walk into a Bar, explores the things we inherit and invites us to take a scalpel to the stories we tell ourselves. Maggie is a master class in transforming personal tragedy into defiant comedy.