Alexis Burling April 25, 2021Updated: April 25, 2021, 8:06 pm
Countless generations of Asians and Pacific Islanders have immigrated to America, enriched its culture and history, and helped make the country what it is today. Their stories are invaluable.
In celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, here are three promising debuts from Asian American writers, coming out in May.
‘Swimming Back to Trout River’
By Linda Rui Feng
“Swimming Back to Trout River” by Linda Rui Feng Photo: Simon & Schuster
A well-known concept in Chinese culture,
yuanfen describes “an invisible mesh that loosely (binds) people and circumstances.”
In her immersive, gorgeously rendered debut set in the years surrounding the Chinese Cultural Revolution, first-generation Chinese immigrant and history Professor Linda Rui Feng uses this idea to frame the tragic yet impassioned tale of a couple torn apart by unrealized love, thwarted dreams and regret on their journey to f
Novelist Carter Sickels: Reading & Craft Talk Community Event Thursday, March 18, 2021 (All day) to Thursday, May 20, 2021 (All day)
Reading from THE PRETTIEST STAR and Craft Talk: Writing with Empathy (45 minutes)
Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Prettiest Star, published by Hub City Press (2020). Among other honors, The Prettiest Star has been named a Kirkus Best Book of 2020, a Finalist for the Southern Book Prize, Best LGBT Book of 2020 by O Magazine, one of the Women s National Book Association s 2020 Great Group Reads Selections, and an Indie Next Pick for April 2020. His debut novel The Evening Hour (Bloomsbury 2012), an Oregon Book Award finalist and a Lambda Literary Award finalist, was adapted into a feature film that premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. His essays and fiction have appeared in a variety of publications. He is an assistant professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University.
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Eleanor J. Bader talks with Jon Sealy about his third novel,
The Merciful, as well as morality, ethics, the state of Southern literature, the business of publishing, and the pandemic.
Everyone in the small, picturesque town of Overlook, South Carolina, has an opinion about the death of nineteen-year-old college student Samantha James. After all, although the facts seem straightforward Samantha was on her bicycle, pedaling along a dark, but familiar, country road to meet her boyfriend, when she was hit by a car driven by Daniel Hayward there are a slew of questions about what she was doing out so late. Hayward, too, is the subject of debate, and people disagree about whether he should be charged with vehicular homicide or murder.
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