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The Memory Museum

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Pub Date Apr 21 2026 | Archive Date Dec 31 2025


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Description

Stretching from the present to the future, from China to America and beyond, M Lin’s piercing debut collection depicts characters finding beauty amidst the disorientation of migration, the contradictions of living between cultures, the perverse realities of race and class, and the delicate dance between survival and resistance. In “Scenes from Childhood,” an elderly woman in a dystopian reality is visited by forgotten memories of her grandfather’s village. In “Magic, or Something Less Assuring,” a fraying couple goes on a divorce honeymoon in Morocco to surprising results. “You Won’t Read This in the News” imagines four migrant workers and petty thieves who forge an unshakable connection across one desperate night. A filmmaker thwarted by censorship untangles her fraught relationship to motherhood and artmaking in “Tough Egg.” And in a newly instated Memory Museum generations into the future, two sensory architects weave a moving tapestry of love and radical hope. Brimming with joy, insight, and emotional power, The Memory Museum unveils M Lin as an irresistible new talent with fearless political and stylistic imagination.

Stretching from the present to the future, from China to America and beyond, M Lin’s piercing debut collection depicts characters finding beauty amidst the disorientation of migration, the...


Advance Praise

The Memory Museum is a book to get very excited about. With gumption and pizzazz M Lin can seemingly take any form, genre, or style and make it do whatever she wants, always something unexpected. But under all the technical brilliance are the timeless literary subjects: love, death, money, family, and mind-blowing sex with some random guy.”—Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection

“These stories are a treasure—moving, kaleidoscopic, ingenious. The Memory Museum marks the arrival of a bold and brilliant voice.”—Madeleine Thien, author of The Book of Records

“M Lin builds worlds bursting with all the complexities that humans hold—longing, hunger of all sorts, and the joys that make impossible any true shunning of the grief we must feel for having loved and lived.”—Dantiel W. Moniz, author of Milk Blood Heat

“Deeply felt and grounded in an intimate acquaintance with contemporary China, these wide-ranging stories portray villagers, protesters, artists, and petty thieves alike with empathy and grace. Nothing is easy for them, and the questions they raise are not easy for us. What an absorbing, probing debut! Wonderful.”—Gish Jen, author of Bad Bad Girl 


“A book of astonishing vitality and vision, The Memory Museum encourages us to ask: What is and what ought to be the relationship between self and society?”—Megha Majumdar, author of A Guardian and a Thief

The Memory Museum is a book to get very excited about. With gumption and pizzazz M Lin can seemingly take any form, genre, or style and make it do whatever she wants, always something unexpected...


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ISBN 9781644453858
PRICE $17.00 (USD)
PAGES 240

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