Literary Fiction
Brandon Taylor tackles nearly every insecurity I’ve ever felt as a creative in one single book. In the aftermath of COVID restrictions and the George Floyd uprisings, clouding Wyeth’s creative head with questions about his art and how it fits into the world.
with Eve J. Chung
Eve J. Chung, author of Daughters of Shandong, joins Bookish Brews to talk about realizing her childhood dream of writing novels and how stories can help us push for a positive change in the world. And most importantly, how she got into writing again after drifting away from it for so long.
by Lilly Lu
Writers Lilly Lu and Claire Stanford chat about their experience writing both fiction and academic writing, especially highlighting the similarities and what they’ve learned doing both.
This Fierce Blood is compelling and beautiful. It is a multigenerational saga that captures the beauty, difficulty, and importance of merging and growing cultures. It clashes and it mends relationships across generations and cultures in a thoughtful and lovely way. It’s absolutely stunning.
Leave the World Behind is truly written wonderfully. Even though not much happened, the writing is compelling enough to keep you on the edge of your seat. The brilliance of this novel is in the writing and the way that it leaves so much to your imagination, but encourages you to imagine the worst. Chilling!
Convenience Store Woman is a captivating story about an overlooked but incredibly important piece of the world. In an incredibly vivid narrative, this story weaves themes of consequences of non-conformity, societal acceptance of sexlessness, and the search for the feeling of belonging and purpose.
On Fragile Waves has stunning prose that matches the dreamers and storytellers of this incredibly undertold experience of a family. Though it dragged a bit in the middle, it ties off with a beautiful solution filled with tragic love that broke my heart.
Read Folklorn. It is important. It is beautiful and wonderful. It is the first book to make me feel like I can claim Asian American for myself. I absolutely applaud what Angela Mi Young Hur was able to accomplish here.