After another taxing day as the sole female employee at her New York City tech startup, Edwina comes home to find that her husband Marlin has packed up a suitcase and left. The only question now is why. Did he give up on their increasingly hopeless quest to secure their green cards and instead decide to return to Malaysia? Was it the death of his father that might have sent him into a tailspin? Or has his strange, sudden change in personality finally made Marlin and Edwina strangers to one another? As Edwina searches the city for traces of her husband, she simultaneously sifts through memories of their relationship, hoping to discover the moment when something went wrong. All the while, a coworker is making increasingly uncomfortable advances toward her. And she can’t hide the truth about Marlin’s disappearance from her overbearing, eccentric mother for much longer. Poignant and darkly funny, Edge Case is a searing meditation on intimacy, estrangement, and the fractured nature of identity. In this moving debut, YZ Chin explores the imperfect yet enduring relationships we hold to country and family.