Coyoteland

"Coyoteland promises to be as dynamic and explosive a suburban drama as LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE." --LitHub (MOST ANTICIPATED)

"Written with WITH, EMPATHY, and HEART." --Electric Lit (MOST ANTICIPATED)

"Totally PROPULSIVE." --Ingrid Rojas Contreras - "A TOUR DE FORCE." --Kirstin Chen - "A tremendous, MESMERIZING gift." --R. O. Kwon - "UNFORGETTABLE." --Jean Kwok - "RIVETING."--Angie Kim

From the BESTSELLING author of A River of Stars comes a FUNNY, HEARTFELT novel set in an affluent Bay Area suburb where a Chinese American family moves in and sets off a series of scandals

Living in El Nido, a privileged community in the hills east of Berkeley, is supposed to mean you've made it. So when Jin Chang moves there with his wife and daughters after years of scraping by, he hopes it will finally be the end of his bad luck. What his family doesn't know is that he's bending the rules for one final scheme: to make it big in real estate. Next door, Blair Belle prides herself on her progressive politics. After all, she treats their new nanny, Ana Rodriguez, and her daughter like family--even if she doesn't know them all that well. But she can't help but feel skeptical of the new neighbors, especially when she begins to suspect that Jin's plans might interfere with the Belle's own luxury development.

Jin's teenage daughter Jane can tell her dad is keeping a secret, but she's also struggling to navigate El Nido's cliques. Tasha Washington has always felt isolated, too, as one of the only Black girls at the school. In the wake of a coyote attack, Jane and Tasha bond. Together, they hatch a plot to expose the town's hypocrisies. The shockwaves will rock their own families. As fire season escalates, and the roaming coyote continues to unleash chaos, the characters become embroiled in a series of scandals that will change El Nido--and their own fates--forever.

Urgent, riveting, and deeply heartfelt, full of sharp wit and keen empathy, Coyoteland is at once a delicious suburban drama and an unflinching exploration of our current moment.

Author: Vanessa Hua
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: 05/12/2026
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.51h x 6.41w x 1.05d
ISBN: 9781250395511


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/13/2026
Library Journal 02/01/2026 pg. 52
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2026
Booklist 05/01/2026

About the Author
Vanessa Hua is the author of the national bestselling novels A River of Stars and Forbidden City, as well as the story collection Deceit and Other Possibilities, a New York Times Editors' Pick. A National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, she has also received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and a Steinbeck Fellowship, as well as awards from the de Groot Foundation, Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists Association. She was a finalist for the California Book Award, Northern California Book Award, and New American Voices Award. A former longtime columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, her award-winning work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. She teaches at the Warren Wilson MFA Program and elsewhere. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.