Holding Pattern A Novel

Jenny Xie

eBook - 2023

A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE“There is so much heart in these pages, so much wisdom on how we love. This book had me in its orbit, from beginning to end.” – Weike Wang, author of Joan is OkayHolding Pattern. Noun.1. A state of suspended progress.2. The awkward way your mother tries to hug you now that you live with her. Again.Kathleen Cheng has blown up her life. She’s gone through a humiliating breakup, dropped out of her graduate program, and left everything behind. Now she’s back in her childhood home in Oakland, wondering what’s next.To her surprise, her mother isn’t the same person Kathleen remembers. No longer depressed or desperate to return to China, the new Marissa Cheng is sporty, perky, a...nd has been transformed by love. Kathleen thought she’d be planning her own wedding, but instead finds herself helping her mother plan hers—to a Silicon Valley tech... more