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Mandy-Suzanne Wong

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Mandy-Suzanne Wong is a Bermudian writer of fiction and essays. She is the author of The Box, a novel (Graywolf, House of Anansi); Drafts of a Suicide Note (Regal House), a Foreword INDIES literary-fiction finalist and PEN Open Book Award nominee; Listen, We All Bleed (New Rivers), a PEN/Galbraith-nominated essay collection and EcoLit Best Book of 2021; and Awabi, a duet of short stories, winner of the Digging Press Chapbook Series Award. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Arcturus, Black Warrior Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, Litro, and Necessary Fiction, winning recognition in the Best of the Net, Aeon Award, and Eyelands Flash Fiction competitions.

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Monarchs Under the Sassafras Tree by Lillah Lawson

Monarchs Under the Sassafras Tree by Lillah Lawson

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Thoroughly researched and meticulously structured in vivid prose, Lillah Lawson’s Monarchs Under the Sassafras Tree brings the Depression-era US south to startling life. Struggling to survive in constant terror of diseases sown by poverty, of racist lynch mobs, and of evangelical threats of eternal punishment; O.T., a whi Read more of this blog post »

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	The Box 3.50 avg rating — 108 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Awabi: A Duet of Short Stories 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Listen, We All Bleed 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Artificial Wilderness it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“He said a tree was a chair's dream and ancestral memory.”
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“She was confused, obviously, given her concussion and what must be an interesting variety of painkillers. I think her overall gist was that nobody can understand the box unless they open it for themselves without breaking it; but nobody should dare to open it lest they miss the point or worse.”
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