Deftly dealing with big issues such as mental illness and immigration, this debut is a powerful look at love and family. -PopSugar

[A] promising debut... Lee handles a sensitive subject with empathy and courage. Readers will find much to admire and ponder throughout, and Lucy's section reveals Lee as a writer of considerable talent and power. -Publishers Weekly

An evocative and beautifully written debut. -Kirkus Reviews

Everything Here Is Beautiful is a tender but unflinching portrayal of the bond between two sisters--one that's frayed by mental illness and stretched across continents, yet still endures. With ventriloquistic skill, Mira T. Lee explores the heartache of loving someone deeply troubled and the unbearable tightrope-walk between holding on and letting go. -Celeste Ng, New York Timesbestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Everything I Never Told You

Stunning and unforgettable. . . filled with voices that resonate and haunt. An intimately personal tale about family, self, and the risks we take to care for the ones we love. --Ruth Ozeki, New York Times bestselling author of A Tale for the Time Being

Mira T. Lee deeply understands the human need for belonging, and in her compassionate debut, she presents an aching yet hopeful story of characters striving to belong despite vast impediments, and the emotional costs incurred in this quest for a love-filled life. -Imbolo Mbue, author of the PEN/Faulkner award-winning Behold the Dreamers

This heart-wrenching, delicately drawn novel is filled with family love, passion, pain and forgiveness. Mira T. Lee spins a story spanning oceans that draws us ever closer to her characters' generous, flawed hearts. Powerful and unforgettable. -Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author of Mambo in Chinatown

This book took my breath away. Lee has an incredible gift for empathy--I found myself rooting for, and caring deeply about, all of characters, even when they couldn't stand each other. I especially commend her nuanced, compassionate depiction of mental illness and how it impacts families. Everything Here Is Beautiful is an insightful, generous celebration of our capacity and complexity as human beings. -Mark Lukach, internationally bestselling author of My Lovely Wife in the Psych Ward

Everything about this book is beautiful. It's a sisters story, an immigrant story, and, more than a story of one family, it's an unflinching reflection of the fast-changing American Family. --Ron Fournier, New York Times bestselling author Love That Boy

Everything Here is Beautiful vividly captures the kaleidoscope of emotional contradictions within our bonds to family and country. Mira T. Lee's powerful debut crafts an elegiac journey: uplifting, disturbing, and--proving its title--beautiful. -Matthew Pearl, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookaneer

Mira Lee has crafted an eloquent, vivid story not just of mental illness, but of passionate longing and family love in which there are no perfect choices but always a pulsing light of hope. -Lucy Ferriss, bestselling author of A Sister to Honor

I was steadily drawn into this beautifully-written story of enduring love and family, however family is defined. Mira T. Lee's characters are captivating and very real, illustrating how intractable mental illness marks everyone in its sphere and renders the quotidian both beautiful and threatening. A compelling read. -Daphne Kalotay, bestselling author of Sight Reading

Charismatic and electrifying. Lee makes vivid the messiness of life and the way we tie ourselves in knots just trying to do the simplest things: love and be loved in return. A knockout. -Rufi Thorpe, author of Dear Fang, With Love