Vanessa Chan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Vanessa Chan

@MissLiberty Adding some debut novels by POC here... SEA CHANGE by @ginathechung April 2023! MOONRISE OVER NEW JESSUP by @lionesstales Jan 2023 WHERE THERE WAS FIRE by John Manuel Arias Feb 2023! CHAIN GANG ALL STARS by @NK_Adjei April 2023! MAAME by @JessGeorge_ Feb 2023!

Vanessa Chan

it’s already been getting rave pre-pub reviews but this novel is also inspiring rave pre-pub text discussions betw me & @ginathechung…go preorder @smathewss’ ALL THIS COULD BE DIFFERENT - can’t decide if I want to sleep with the protagonist or hang her upside down by her chaos🥵 https://t.co/lW4ZO9W4vf

Vanessa Chan

Welcome to the world beautiful Malas, a novel of proportions so fun and so epic and so joyous and so cursed (you’ll see why when you read it!!!) that @gmabookclub picked it for their book club, and every trade publication to grace this earth gave it starred reviews even before it published.

Vanessa Chan

Just read 65 pages of Lily King’s Writers & Lovers - this book is charming, quietly gorgeous, strangely agonizing, and somehow I’m not disliking reading about a writer (not) writing…I’m surprised and thrilled by how enjoyable it is & how improved my night feels by having read it

Vanessa Chan

Books I have preordered in a huge hurry in the last month! The Very Nice Box by @egleichman Brown Girls by @DaphnePalasiA Olga Dies Dreaming by @XochitltheG Edge Case by @yz_chin The School for Good Mothers by @jessaminechan Wbu guys??

Vanessa Chan

@jeanho @smathewss @delia_cai Cannot wait to read central places but omg Sneha in ALL THIS was just a wonderful beautiful mess I love her

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Vanessa Chan

Everyone must read @AMrjoian575’s new story in @The_Rumpus - a story that’s a little bit of everything and completely self aware about itself. As a review I leave you this deranged text I sent Aram this morning — but yes GO READ it’s good for the soul 😭❤️ https://therumpus.net/2022/04/25/rumpus-original-fiction-wherever-anyplace/ https://t.co/KFxUYukREv

Vanessa Chan

Last couple days I’ve been reading @NK_Adjei’s FRIDAY BLACK on the subway, one story per ride & well no one told me it’s one of those books which causes me to miss my stops & thrice now my punctual ass has been late or nearly late; anyway the book is astounding hope you have it

Vanessa Chan

Just cover-to-cover read, in one sitting, Alyssa Songsiridej’s LITTLE RABBIT, and what a infuriating, wonderful, enchanting, sexy book. I feel transported, and stressed, and profoundly mad. What a wonder; @anarasong and thank you for writing it. Wow.

Vanessa Chan

Finally reading Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic and I’m so very excited for myself, my first person plural loving self