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Mandy-Suzanne Wong
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Monarchs Under the Sassafras Tree by Lillah Lawson
Monarchs Under the Sassafras Tree by Lillah LawsonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
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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Drafts of a Suicide Note
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Awabi: A Duet of Short Stories
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Listen, We All Bleed
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Cybernetics, or Ghosts? : Stories from Myth to A.I.
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Mandy-Suzanne’s Recent Updates
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My review of Juliana Leite’s intimate and philosophical novel Exemplary Humans, translated from Portuguese by Zoë Perry, is up in Asymptote Journal! https://asymptotejournal.com/blog/202... ...more |
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| This novel by Cameroonian filmmaker Osvalde Lewat, translated from the French by Maren Baudet-Lackner, is lush, courageous, and disturbing. The protagonist, who is both highly sensitive and willfully blind, is richly rendered in all her contradiction ...more | |
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| Geetanjali Shree’s characters and dancing prose are always a delight! Her novel THE ROOF BENEATH THEIR FEET, translated from Hindi by Rahul Soni, is a refreshingly feminist story of friendship, family, and love. Some thoughts from me in Asymptote Jou ...more | |
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| Urszula Honek’s collection of dark stories, WHITE NIGHTS, translated from the Polish by Kate Webster and longlisted for the Intl Booker Prize, are quietly piercing – and now available to US readers from Two Lines Press. Here’s my review in Asymptote. ...more | |
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It was a pleasure to spend time with AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF COTTON – a magnificent documentary novel by Cristina Rivera Garza, translated polyphonically from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney – and to write about it for Asymptote Journal. https://www.asympto ...more |
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Many thanks to the editors at Necessary Fiction for the opportunity to review FALSE WAR by Carlos Manuel Álvarez, polyphonically translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer. Thanks to Graywolf Press for the ARC. https://necessaryfiction.com/review ...more |
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What’s New In Translation at Asymptote has some amazing suggestions for TBR piles around the world. I wrote about Chi Zijian’s marvelous novel of Evenki reindeer herders, The Last Quarter of the Moon, translated by Bruce Humes. https://www.asymptotejo ...more |
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For Asymptote Journal, I wrote about Eva Meijer’s soft-spoken disaster novel, SEA NOW, translated from the Dutch by Anna Thompson Melo. https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog... ...more |
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| The magnificence of Margaret Jull Costa’s translations of Maria Judite de Carvalho lies in the quiet naturalness with which the sentences seem to flow despite being astonishing, sometimes radical, at times even disturbing. In Carvalho’s GRACE PERIOD, ...more | |
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For ASYMPTOTE's blog, I reviewed THE INVESTIGATOR by Dragan Velikić, translated from the Serbian by Christina Pribichevich-Zorić, published by Istros. https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog... ...more |
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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.”
― The Box
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