Claire Jia has had a busy year.

The Los Angeles-based author, who wrote for the Peabody Award-winning video game “We Are OFK,” recently released a comedy series, “Crash Outs,” written and directed by her and her friends Jennifer Kim and Lisa Deng, on its own app .

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Jia has also published her first novel, “Wanting,” out now from Tin House Books . The book, set in Beijing, features two storylines. In the first, Lian, who works for an American education company, reunites with her childhood best friend, Wenyu, who has moved to the U.S. and become a popular YouTube influencer. Both have partners: Lian is searching for a new home for her and her boyfriend, the staid Zhetai, while Wen

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