“Below the Line is a page-turner, a rich and satisfying collection. The language is lean and elegant, the humor sly, the characters poignant, quirky, and all-too human, moving with jet-set ease from East to West, and back again… Sara Chin is a smart, welcome new voice in contemporary fiction.” – Jessica Hagedorn

“Sara Chin, with careful ear, takes the reader below the line, where guttural utterances like eh and nh matter, where sounds of immigrant life intrude on a muted screen filled with American signage and gesture.” – Karen Tei Yamashita

“Sara Chin writes with subtlety, wit, and feeling…Which one of us cannot identify in some way with the lonely exile’s tragicomic struggle for survival and meaning, like the immigrant father who, having made it though bombings and political upheaval in China, gets frantically lost circling the Washington, D.C. Beltway loop? These wonderful stories express a luminous intelligence and are told with compassion.” – Elaine Kim

Sara Chin lives and works in San Francisco.