The Night Parade: A Speculative Memoir (Mariner Books, October), a genre-bending memoir, divided into the four acts of a traditional Japanese narrative structure and illustrated by the author’s sister, that reckons with Lin’s adolescence, marked by an undiagnosed bipolar disorder, as well as the death of her father, and interrogates the notion of recovery, fear, and grief to answer the question of how we learn to live with the things that haunt us. Agent: Stephanie Delman of Trellis Literary Management. Editor: Jessica Williams. First Lines: “Listen—
In the presence of a story—if the story is a good one—time collapses. This is why I am always telling it.
Once upon a time, long, long ago, my people knew a fundamental truth: the sea was coming for them. It was not their…
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Poets & Writers (Digital) - 1 Issue, September/October 2023