Your Face in Mine

"A moving, compelling examination of love, loss and humanity. In our time, when race is the most charged, complex (and perhaps most important) subject available for an American writer to take on, it is incredibly rare to encounter a book written by a white man that engages thoroughly, thoughtfully and thrillingly with that very subject. This is a necessary book."
--Martha Southgate, author of The Taste of Salt and Third Girl From The Left

"A white writer tackling race and class this honestly, this fearlessly? Talk about a rarity. So it's a relief that Jess Row is also one of the smartest, most observant contemporary writers around. This novel reads like Studs Terkel and Philip K. Dick decided to collaborate. It's beautiful and painful, often at the same time."
--Victor LaValle, author of The Devil in Silver

Praise for Nobody Ever Gets Lost: Stories:

"This is work of the highest quality, on par with the best contemporary writers."--Julie Orringer, author of The Invisible Bridge and How to Breathe Underwater

"What I love about these stories is their great intelligence attached to a depth of feeling that's really quite unusual in American writing."-- Charles Baxter, author of The Feast of Love

"In painterly, richly detailed, worldly fictions, Row reminds us of the moral rigor needed to overcome loss and the fact of the world's swift indifference to suffering on any scale."--Christine Schutt, author of All Souls and Florida

"Jess Row is one of the best story writers of our age."--Lorin Stein, editor, The Paris Review

"Nobody Ever Gets Lost is that rare work which can boast both focus and scope. It is a powerful book, raw and shrewd and brave."--Bookforum

"[A] richly nuanced story collection."--Library Journal

"The details of these stories are indelible, and their revelations often leave the reader slightly breathless."--Fiction Writers Review

"Psychologically nuanced."--NewCity Lit

"Daring."--The Rumpus

"This is a book of stories about the dangers of telling stories...I was very impressed by the seeming artlessness of Row's style--that he created the effects he did without reaching for a literary toolbox of fancy metaphors."--Paper Trails (WNPR, Hartford, CT)


Praise for The Train to Lo Wu: Stories:

"Row's stories are subtle...and fascinating."-- Entertainment Weekly

"In crystalline prose, Row animates intriguing characters and dramatizes subtle yet emblematic conflicts as he traces the vast cultural divides between America and Hong Kong...He neatly and devastatingly contrasts dueling visions of faith, art, love, and freedom."-- Booklist

"In sharp, lucid prose, Row molds a landscape of human error and uncertainty, territory well-aligned with the eerie topography of his space-age city."-- Publishers Weekly

"An impressive debut from an admirably protean storyteller...Row's characters are a mixed bunch, but all are effortlessly convincing, and he handles gritty suspense quite as well as he does the problems of lovers. This Whiting Award-winning author has a very bright future."-- Kirkus Reviews

"Jess Row's The Train to Lo Wu leaves me almost speechless...Many writers have managed to describe Hong Kong, but few have as a deft a touch with the Hong Kong people, real people, with the cadences of Hong Kong English, with the gestures, body language and internal contradictions of the people of this place."--The Asian Review of Books

"In these linked stories about Hong Kong Jess Row has been able to locate the very heart of modern spirituality in this most commercial of cities...This is a debut that feels like a crowning achievement."-- Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story and The Flaneur

"From New York to Hong Kong, Jess Row's stories take us to worlds that are both familiar and strange. It is rare to find the spirit and mind combined so deftly as in these stories. This is a magnificent collection."-- Charles Baxter, author of The Feast of Love

"Over and over, these beautifully crafted stories drew me in with their quietly persuasive voices, their meditative detail, and their subtly heart-rending plots. An auspicious debut from a talent set to endure."-- Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl

"Jess Row writes with elegance and freshness in prose that sounds a depth of feeling. These stories are poems in themselves, haunting in their clarity and sympathies. They achieve a kind of stillness that seems appropriate for their Chinese setting. I can hardly imagine a more forceful or memorable debut."-- Jay Parini, author of Promised Land