May-lee Chai 翟梅莉 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

May-lee Chai 翟梅莉

Excited my book was mentioned with these great titles! //Forever Lost in Literature: Can't-Wait Wednesday—Daphne by Josh Malerman, A Map for the Missing by Belinda Huijuan Tang, & Tomorrow in Shanghai: Stories by May-lee Chai: https://t.co/ArpgByWBvo

May-lee Chai 翟梅莉

"Real Americans" is both a novel of ideas and of beautiful sentences. Khong's prose is a pleasure to read — as it was in her first novel, "Goodbye, Vitamin," winner of a California Book Award — even as the questions she raises are chilling, indeed.

May-lee Chai 翟梅莉

The book is devastating and beautiful in its recounting of memory. Otsuka’s diamond-chiseled sentences are as polished as those of her earlier books.

May-lee Chai 翟梅莉

@gabehudson Feels like a missing chapter from Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.

May-lee Chai 翟梅莉

Looking forward to this! Loved @Kathryn_E_Ma ‘s novel THE YEAR SHE LEFT US! https://t.co/PDD4iria8P

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So excited to get a signed copy of @kirstin_chen ‘s COUNTERFEIT, now out in paperback, from @GreenAppleBooks ! https://t.co/uGaWIGG2eY

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Shifting back and forth between the late 1970s and early 1990s, "A Map for the Missing" is a vivid portrait of this period of rapid change in Chinese society, showing both the benefits of opening to the world as well as more personal losses that cannot be recouped.

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@GrubStreetWomen The film A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT by Iranian American director Ana Lily Amirpour; books DIALOGUES IN PARADISE by Can Xue and BESTIARY by K-Ming Chang; short story collection WHAT IT MEANS WHEN A MAN FALLS FROM THE SKY by Lesley Nneka Arimah ; BELOVED by Toni Morrison

May-lee Chai 翟梅莉

The Apology" is an imaginative work that draws upon traditional Korean Buddhist beliefs about the afterlife to explore the long-term consequences of decisions made under the value system of a different era.

May-lee Chai 翟梅莉

In her audacious debut novel-in-stories, “Shanghailanders,” Juli Min starts in the future and travels backward through the 21st century to tell the history of one wealthy Shanghai family... Min is a talented writer whose debut shows much promise.