This Place is Still Beautiful

Two sisters. A shocking racist incident. The summer that will change both of their lives forever. 
 
Annalie and Margaret are sisters who agree on only one thing: that they have nothing in common. 
 
Annalie is seventeen: sweet, content, and looking forward to a summer of flirting with the most popular boy in school. 
 
Margaret is nineteen: ambitious, a warrior for social justice, and desperate to forget her ex-boyfriend in New York City. 
 
When their family is the victim of a racial attack, Annalie tries to pretend it never happened - but Margaret wants to fight back. Suddenly their relationship - and all the ones around them - are hanging by a thread. And then a crushing secret threatens to tear them apart forever . . . 
 
A beautiful and powerful story about family, identity and the secrets we keep, perfect for fans of Angie Thomas, Nicola Yoon, and Adam Silvera.

This assured YA debut interweaves uncompromising truths about prejudice, identity and belonging with sweet, heady romance and a nuanced depiction of sisterhood.

This book made me feel seen in a way that very few books ever have.

Misa Sugiura, author of This Time Will Be Different

[A]n exciting new voice in YA . . . this moving debut is not to be missed.

Yuxi 'XiXi' Tian is an attorney at Google by day and a writer by night. She emigrated from China when she was a year old, and grew up in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois, on which Margaret and Annalie's town is based. Before working at Google, Yuxi attended Harvard Law School, and for a brief period dabbled with the idea of becoming a literary agent. She now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and cat.

Annalie and Margaret are sisters who agree on only one thing: that they have nothing in common. 
 
Annalie is seventeen: sweet, content, and looking forward to a summer of flirting with the most popular boy in school. 
 
Margaret is nineteen: ambitious, a warrior for social justice, and desperate to forget her ex-boyfriend in New York City. 
 
When their family is the victim of a racial attack, Annalie tries to pretend it never happened - but Margaret wants to fight back. Suddenly their relationship - and all the ones around them - are hanging by a thread. And then a crushing secret threatens to tear them apart forever . . .

XiXi Tian

Praise for This Place is Still Beautiful: 'This book made me feel seen in a way that very few books ever have.'

Stella Chen is annoyed. 
 
Her parents have forced her to join the Zhao family on a college tour around the West Coast, and their overachieving son Alan, who she hasn't seen since she was six, is insufferable. 
 
It also seems like her parents can't wait to take a break from her, as she's a constant reminder of the son they recently lost - Stella's big brother, David. 
 
Tensions fly as Stella struggles with grief, long-kept family secrets are revealed, and at some point along the way she begins to see Alan as more than just the bratty kid from her childhood...

XiXi Tian

Praise for All the Way Around the Sun

Praise for This Place is Still Beautiful: 'This book made me feel seen in a way that very few books ever have.'

[A]n exciting new voice in YA . . . this moving debut is not to be missed.

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