The Longest Way to Eat a Melon

By Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross

The debut short story collection from writer, artist, and editor Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross.

Equal parts melody and malaise, The Longest Way to Eat a Melon charts the activities of a cast of speakers who all grapple in their own ways with what it takes to conjure a self in the midst of discordance. A brain argues with a non-brain about how to remain productive from a place of exhaustion; two supernaturally inclined twins named Han are separated at birth; and an emerging artist paralyzed by possibility considers how best to transform a melon into a breakthrough work of art. Incorporating elements of fable, surrealism, satire, and art and cultural criticism, these stories have a playful peculiarity to them, an interweaving of self-deprecation and curiosity, of woe and hope, of absurdity and humanity. Reader, you will want to savor every bite.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1956046410
• ISBN13: 9781956046410
• Release Date: June 2025
• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.7"