A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing

William Morrow, Winter 2026

Columbia University MFA Felipe De Alba Fellow and 2022-23 MQR Jesmyn Ward Prize recipient Alice Evelyn Yang’s A BEAST SLINKS TOWARDS BEIJING, a family saga set during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria and the Cultural Revolution that explores the effects of intergenerational trauma, the legacy of colonialism, and the inescapability of fate through the prism of Chinese and Japanese folklore, to Tessa James at William Morrow, in a six-figure deal, in a pre-empt, by Iwalani Kim at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates (NA).