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About Abigail Hing Wen

Abigail Hing Wen (Chinese: 邢立美; pinyin: Xíng Lìměi; born 1977) is an American writer, film producer, director and speaker. Her debut young adult novel, Loveboat, Taipei, was purchased in a multi-house auction by HarperCollins in a two-book deal, along with Loveboat Reunion. It debuted on the New York Times Bestseller List where it remained for multiple weeks and has been adapted to the film Love in Taipei and released through Paramount+ as of August 10, 2023. On August 2024, Love in Taipei was released on Netflix.

Loveboat, Taipei follows the journey of an Asian American teen whose parents send her from Ohio to Taipei to study Mandarin for the summer at a program nicknamed Loveboat. It is a coming-of-age story exploring love, family, multifaceted identity and intersectionality. Wen's companion novel, Loveboat Reunion, follows two of the main characters from Loveboat, Taipei as they reconnect and write their own futures on a wild, unexpected reunion. The novel draws inspiration from Wen's work in Silicon Valley, with a girl trying to navigate her fashion interests and interests in AI. The third novel, Loveboat Forever, (November 7, 2023) is set six years later, and follows the gang and their community through new coming of age journeys.

Wen's stand alone YA thriller/romantic comedy, Kisses, Codes, and Conspiracies, was released on August 13, 2024.

Abigail Hing Wen writes about Young adult fiction, romance, romantic comedy, Young adult fiction, diversity & multicultural, Young adult fiction, coming of age, nyt:young-adult-hardcover=2020-01-26, Young adult fiction, people & places, asia, and Young adult fiction, family, parents. Their best-known work is Loveboat, Taipei.

On FindMyTBR we track 5 books by Abigail Hing Wen, 5 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Kisses, Codes, and Conspiracies, Loveboat Forever, and Loveboat Reunion. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.