The breakout collection about grief, loss and living from award-winning Asian American poet Victoria Chang, whose star is rising.

'Chang's new collection explores her father's illness and her mother's death, treating mortality as a constantly shifting enigma. A serene acceptance of grief emerges from these poems' New York Times

'[A] solemn, gorgeous, understated book' Stephanie Sy-Quia, TLS

'Exceptional . . . Chang's poems expand and contract to create surprising geometries of language, vividly capturing the grief they explore' Publishers Weekly, starred review

'[Obit] is heartbreaking and enthralling. It sings and instructs. It is a world all its own; one that changes ours' Ilya Kaminsky