Canal Street Dreams

Canal Street Dreams

Come Undone is Here...

6 days out from our pub date, I wanted to share an excerpt of my favorite chapter

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Eddie Huang
Jun 10, 2026
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We are 6 days out from publication and I couldn’t be more excited.

It’s been 13 years since I published Fresh Off the Boat and from 2013 to 2020, I really didn’t grow.

Success insulated me from looking at my own reflection or hearing the voices of the people who really cared about me and it was easier to point at all the positive things happening at work while ignoring how my personal life was falling apart.

Being alone on a mountain in Taiwan for most of 2020 broke me open and when I returned to America a woman who’d curved me for 2 years on a dating app decided to fire a message out of the blue saying:

“What I’m going to do here is pretend like I didn’t ignore this message for 2 years. How are you?” she said.

It was hysterical. Who would receive such a half-assed triple late response?

A fantastically intrigued and extremely lonely man sitting on his couch in Mid-City.

The woman who messaged me was of course Natashia and she changed my life.

In all my prior relationships, I’d get to a p…

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