Chiang Tai-Yu is the bestselling author of nearly a dozen novels including You Turn Around and I’ll Go Downstairs. Car Washers, his memoir about losing his eyesight and working at a car wash, was shortlisted for the 2019 Taipei Literature Award, while his short story Thirty Miles Due East was a recipient of the 2024 Lin Rung San Prize. He also writes under the pseudonym Fumijiang (Spreading Rice Milk).

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