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Cinema Love

by Jiaming Tang · 2024

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Winner of the Los Angeles Times' Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Winner of the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction Winner of the Ferro-Grumley award for LGBTQ Fiction Finalist for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award Finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award A Dakota Johnson x TeaTime Book Club Pick “Part ghost story, part love story, and part tale of hardscrabble immigrant life.” —The New Yorker A staggering epic about men and women who find themselves in forbidden relationships, the weight of secrets, and the persistence of memory. Spanning decades, from post-socialist China to contemporary New York, Cinema Love is a tour de force about gay men and the women who marry them.…

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"This debut novel about a queer Chinese film director, set against the backdrop of filmmaking, aligns with Dakota Johnson's work through TeaTime Pictures and her book club's focus on new voices."
TeaTime Book Club 2024 Picks · en.wikipedia.org