LURKERS
Sandi Tan
Sandi Tan
From author and filmmaker Sandi Tan, director of the acclaimed Netflix documentary Shirkers, comes a polyphonic novel about a neighborhood of immigrants, seekers, lovers, and lurkers.
“How is Lurkers simultaneously hilarious and horrifying? I’ll tell you how: PURE GENIUS.” —Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians
“Riveting storytelling opens a portal into the private lives of a diverse and remarkable cast of characters.” —Time
“Lurkers affirms Tan as a deft and impressively rangy storyteller with an unfettered imagination, eager to flay open the more disturbing aspects of human nature and suffering . . . Part of the pleasure of reading Lurkers is the queasiness of parsing the darkly comic from the just plain dark.” —GQ
“Sandi Tan’s Lurkers is an acid-etched American Beauty for our current moment . . . a sneaky marvel of a novel and not to be missed.”—Megan Abbott, bestselling author of Give Me Your Hand
“I tore through this novel—Tan is a visionary with an imagination I would follow anywhere.”—Kate Elizabeth Russell, author of My Dark Vanessa
“Lurkers affirms Tan as a deft and impressively rangy storyteller with an unfettered imagination, eager to flay open the more disturbing aspects of human nature and suffering . . . Part of the pleasure of reading Lurkers is the queasiness of parsing the darkly comic from the just plain dark.” —GQ
“Sandi Tan’s Lurkers is an acid-etched American Beauty for our current moment . . . a sneaky marvel of a novel and not to be missed.”—Megan Abbott, bestselling author of Give Me Your Hand
“I tore through this novel—Tan is a visionary with an imagination I would follow anywhere.”—Kate Elizabeth Russell, author of My Dark Vanessa
Sandi Tan was born in Singapore and has an MFA in screenwriting from Columbia University. She directed the 2018 Netflix film Shirkers, which won a Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival, was named Best Documentary of 2018 by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Oscar for Best Documentary. The Black Isle was her debut novel. She will be directing her film adaptation of Elif Batuman’s novel The Idiot. She lives in Los Angeles.
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