About the Author

Esther Yi was born in Los Angeles in 1989 and currentlylives in Leipzig, Germany. Y/N is her debut novel.

Reviews

'Sumptuous, precise, and full of pulsing, startling life, Yi captures with finesse the rhythms of internet voyeurism, the corporeality of parasocial desire, and the very heartbeat of contemporary longing.' - Alexandra Kleeman, author of Something New Under the Sun

'Esther Yi's every paragraph is revelatory, unexpected, with an intense capacity to see the world anew, such that we are empowered again in the matter of astonishment. I admire her work so much.' - Rick Moody, author of Hotels of North America

'Crisp zeitgeist setups within a transnational now-Esther Yi's sharp, sculpted paragraphs beat with a hilarious demonheart that'll make you cry. I loved it.' - Eugene Lim, author of Search History

'Esther Yi's debut novel reads with decisive, alarming confidence, in a prose style that's both intellectually rigorous and playfully perverse. Yi has a preternatural sense for the ways we speak past each other, locked as we are in the whirlpools of our own devotion-Y/N reveals the unexpected places desire can lead us, if only we are willing to lose ourselves.' - Larissa Pham, author of Pop Song