Heather Eng is a third-generation Chinese American who grew up in Queens, New York. A lifelong writer, she graduated from Boston University with a journalism degree, and worked as a newspaper journalist, web editor, and senior marketing leader in the tech industry.
Eng lives in Manhattan with her husband and daughter.
Double Happiness is her first novel.
At Lit Hub the author tagged
six titles about the American Dream and social striving, including:
Shilpi Somaya Gowda, A Great Country
The Shah family has just moved from Irvine to Pacific Hills, a cliffside Southern California neighborhood with sprawling homes and ocean views. For Ashok, the 
patriarch, the move signals that he’s finally achieved the American Dream. His other family members are more conflicted, though. Ashok’s wife, Priya, and eldest daughter, Deepa, miss the diverse, mostly immigrant, old neighborhood they left behind. Middle daughter Maya is more open to her family’s change in fortune. But when twelve-year-old Ajay, the Shah’s youngest child, is arrested, the family must face whether their newfound social status will protect them—or whether they’re just another brown family in the eyes of the U.S. justice system. I was awed at how skillfully Gowda tackled race, class, and social striving in this deeply empathetic, page-turning novel. I recommend A Great Country to everyone I know—and everyone who’s read it loves it.
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--Marshal Zeringue
Heather Eng is a third-generation Chinese American who grew up in Queens, New York. A lifelong writer, she graduated from Boston University with a journalism degree, and worked as a newspaper journalist, web editor, and senior marketing leader in the tech industry.
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