Adrift in the South, a memoir by Xiao Hai 小海

Granta Magazine Editions, May 7th, 2026 (June 9th in the US)

Featured in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Millions, Semafor, and elsewhere

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

Read an excerpt in The Wall Street Journal here

Read another excerpt in Granta here

Read yet another excerpt in Lit Hub 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