Adrift in the South, a memoir by Xiao Hai 小海

Granta Magazine Editions, May 7th, 2026 (May 26th in the US)

Order Chinese worker-poet Xiao Hai’s debut book here

Read an excerpt from The Wall Street Journal here

Read another excerpt from Granta here

Read a conversation between the two of us on The Baffler here

Read a review of it on Financial Times here

Winner of PEN Translates, English PEN, Feb 2026