ON SALE JULY 16, 2024

to pre-order:

Read more advanced praise for Docile.

A searing coming-of-age memoir for fans of Crying in H Mart, Minor Feelings, and the film Minari, Docile follows the daughter of ambitious Asian American immigrants and her search for self-worth.

“I READ IT BREATHLESSLY
IN A SINGLE SITTING.”

Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk

“A REVELATION.”
Chloé Cooper Jones, author of Easy Beauty

“A SAVAGELY BEAUTIFUL MEMOIR.”
David Henry Hwang, author of M. Butterfly

“A GORGEOUS GLIMPSE OF ONE SEEKER'S EARNEST JOURNEY TOWARD SELFHOOD."
Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch

“THIS BOOK SLICED MY HEART.”
Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your Face

“FEW WRITERS HAVE CAPTURED THE TERROR AND WONDER OF CHILDHOOD WITH SONG'S PRECISION AND INTELLECT."
Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year

“A PROFOUND AND POETIC MEDITATION ON THE VALUE OF LIVING.”
Grace M. Cho, author of Tastes Like War

“Song leaves readers with a bold assertion: that we must become who we are meant to be, no matter the cost.”
Kat Chow, author of Seeing Ghosts

“LEFT ME OPEN MOUTHED AND GAPING IN WONDER.”
Marie Myung-Ok Lee, author of The Evening Hero