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January 5, 2020
A wife fails to produce heirs, and is sidelined. What makes this story doubly sad is that this many-times-great-aunt probably felt she deserved her fate.
January 4, 2020
There are scenes in my novels drawn from family history. So I will be posting those family stories for the next little while.
December 2, 2019
Apart from buying their books, what can you do to help an author whose work you enjoy? Most of these ideas don't cost money.
May 29, 2019
This is an important book that brings to mainstream literature a tragic and neglected chapter in Korean history. For me, this is Lisa See’s strongest novel yet.
May 21, 2019
Jean Kwok delivers a twist that turns this novel about families and secrets into a page-turner of a mystery dove-tailed with riveting domestic drama.
November 20, 2018
So proud to be nominated for this award alongside other wonderful Canadian writers. I know it's an international award, but we Canadians like to stick together.
November 7, 2018
When I scored a signed (!) copy of Aimie K. Runyan’s latest novel GIRLS ON THE LINE it felt like hitting jackpot. Set in World War I, the novel is about the “Hello Girls”, American women sent to work in the field as telephone operators for the US Army Signal Corps.
June 20, 2018
I have so many life experiences now that I didn’t have when I was 18 or 28 or 38. I’m never going to run out of material and can be choosy in what I decide to write about so that it’s the best, most original, most memorable thing I can make it. And it’s all because of those decades of life experience.
June 13, 2018
It's impossible to read the title of this book and not smile. Its young heroine, Peasprout Chen, doesn’t let you down. Her voice is as cocky and self-confident as the title, the story as action-packed as the cover design suggests.
May 12, 2018
My editor has sent a quick note to say she’s finished reading the draft of WS and enjoyed it very much. I'm so relieved. At this point, as long as the feedback doesn’t include words such as “steaming pile of …" I'm happy.