Blog: Books
For February, we present you an excerpt from Mira T. Lee's debut novel, EVERYTHING HERE IS BEAUTIFUL. The novel follows Lucia, a Chinese American woman who struggles with mental illness, and the people who love her, most notably, her fiercely protective older sister. Told from multiple points of view, the novel explores the heartbreak and helplessness that mental illness has upon individuals and those around them, and the struggle everyone seeks to be understood. This early section comes before the mental illness has set in and introduces us to Lucia, her sister Miranda and Yonah, the man Lucia loves.
Mira T. Lee - February 9, 2018
Review of Marriage of a Thousand Lies by S.J. Sindu
Jenn Lee Smith - January 17, 2018
A Review of Go Home!, an anthology edited by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Joyce Chen - January 17, 2018
“[T]he ocean is a positive place, not, or not only, a transit zone. The ocean’s surfaces and depths have cultural location and consequence, maps and identities, visibility as well as invisibility … ”
— Lisa Samuels, “Introduction: What Do We Mean When We Say Transpacific”
Mia Ayumi Malhotra - December 8, 2017
Sujata Massey - December 7, 2017
Poet Tiana Nobile on Adoption and Uncovering Submerged Narratives through Erasure
Leah Silvieus - November 14, 2017
