Perfection

"Yes, it is indeed a skewering of the contemporary millennial lifestyle as it pertains to digital nomads in the gig economy—they’re even front-end engineers, the ‘superficial layer’ of tech—but I really hope that when people read this very entertaining novel that they also take note of the sharp critiques of privilege throughout, like that indelible description of that world-infamous image of the drowned Syrian child on the beach. The funny thing was that none of the judges noticed the lengths of the books we chose for the longlist until we saw them all together. Slim books are very common in East Asia, so I thought nothing of it, but I guess I do now see that publishers in the Anglosphere are more willing to embrace shorter-length works of prose ? Welcome to the club!"