Ping Pong Kids: A Novel

FROM THE WINNER OF THE 2026 GEORGE PLIMPTON PRIZE

“This book is like if the tennis students from Infinite Jest were Chinese twelve-year-olds who drank beer . . . Ping Pong Kids is the greatest, funniest, most honest book I’ve read about the nature of prodigy. Renny Gong is quite clearly a prodigy himself, and this batty, brilliant debut novel will have you doing every possible kind of crying.”
—Tony Tulathimutte, author of Rejection

An uproariously funny and surprisingly tender debut novel fol...