Vanessa Chan

The best way to watch yourself (and @jujuchangabc ) on @goodmorningamerica as the @gmabookclub pick? From a hotel room with your friends SCREAMING their lungs out. I am so lucky 😭😭😭

“The Storm We Made” by @vanjchan is our #GMABookClub pick for January! 📚 The novel by the Malaysian author asks an intriguing question: Why would a young mother betray her husband and her country? And what if that helps unleash a catastrophe? Head to our link 🔗 in bio to start reading. #bookclub #booktok #bookcommunity #thestormwemade #bookworm #bookstagram #books #bookrecommendations

Just a smattering of the funny and the absurd on this trip back to the motherland and Melbourne, in which I learned I love dry bah kut teh

Geliyor nicedir heyecanla beklediğim, çevirisini yaparken hep sizlerle buluşacağı günü hayal ettiğim roman. @vanjchan ’in Japon işgali altındaki Malezya’da geçen müthiş hikayesi yakında @domingo_yayinevi etiketiyle raflarda. Bekleyiniz! #vanessachan #TheStormWeMade #çeviri #neokuyorum #kitapönerisi

These are (were) a few of my favorite things

Holiday card / Seasons greetings from my nyc fam to yours

Millennial mid life crisis: Give up a stable job and boyfriend and life and move cross-country to write a book, as they say.

It has taken me awhile to process this. Many of you know that my mother died of metastatic breast cancer, and my aunt, her sister learned she had breast cancer the same time as my mom. That puts my chance of contracting breast cancer in my lifetime at over 50%. Not great. The other variable to breast cancer is the mutation of the BRCA gene (BRCA1 and BRCA2). Mutations in these genes are genetic and significantly increase the risk of contracting breast cancer. With a family history like mine, a BRCA mutation all but assures breast cancer in one’s lifetime. Years ago you will remember that Angelina Jolie got a preemptive double mastectomy — it was because her mother died of breast cancer AND she had a BRCA1 gene mutation. For a long time I thought this was my fate. I avoided genetic testing. So did my mother. She was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer in 2010. She died in 2020. For 15 years, I refused the test. This year I finally screwed up the courage. One vial of blood. Two weeks. When the results arrived I found I couldn’t open the email for days. And when I did I cried a little (a lot). I do not have the genetic mutation. I do not have to consider preemptive invasive surgery. I still have to do screenings, I still have a nearly 60% chance of contracting breast cancer in my lifetime. But 60% and early screening is not 100% and for that I’m so grateful. I’m grateful to my obgyn who gently urged me to walk down the hall and give that one single vial of blood. And I’m grateful that life has once again given me a little bit of extra luck. Here’s to life. 🥂

An honor and a really fun time hosting the @wwborders 2025 gala, then hanging out with my beautiful plus twos @safiyasinclair and @monicajuice ! @wwborders is an organization any person who reads, writes, or cares about literature outside the western literary centers should know. Most 📸 by @beowulfsheehan @anandalima @monicajuice

I said introvert season would commence in July… I lied. Summer has been serving and the people have been absolutely gorgeous!

Last two weeks has been absolutely insane (in the best way). I think I was faded and/or sleep deprived for most of it. Anyway Gemini szn has concluded so commence introvert era (sorry I don’t have enough tags!!)

Today is my birthday and I am happy to be alive