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Kaier has carried a torch for Lou since he rescued her from a flash flood when they were children. Kaier is a bright, ambitious child, but in rural China, she is expected to help at home, raise her younger brothers, and be the best in school. She battles for her education until one tragic day when her baby brother wanders out into an oncoming dust storm, Kaier runs into the storm to save him and makes herself desperately ill.
Kaier’s time in a hospital fuels her ambition to be a doctor and when Lou seems more interested in her beautiful cousin than he is in her, she dives headfirst into life in Nanjing, the large coastal city where she can pursue her university degree. When Lou’s wife becomes sick with myeloma, Kaier needs to decide if she’s willing to help her or does she want Lou for herself. Oasis explores the power of devotion, both to those we love and those places we first called home.
Yang Huang is an award-winning, Chinese-born American author. Her most recent novel, Oasis, won the Cai Emmons Fiction Award. She is also the author of My Good Son, winner of the University of New Orleans Publishing Lab Prize; the Juniper Prize–winning story collection, My Old Faithful; and the debut novel Living Treasures, which received a Nautilus Book Award. Her stories and essays have appeared in Poets & Writers, Literary Hub, The Millions, and elsewhere. A member of San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, she works at UC Berkeley and lives in the Bay Area with her family. More at www.yanghuang.com