(2023), Skin Deep (2020), Love Love (2015), and Everything Asian (2009), which won the 2010 Asian Pacific American Librarians Association Literature Award. In 2022, his Modern Love essay from The New York Times was adapted by Amazon Studios for episodic television. A graduate of Cornell University with an MFA from New York University, he lives in Washington, New Jersey.
[Coffee with a Canine: Sung J. Woo & Koda; The Page 69 Test: Everything Asian; My Book, The Movie: Skin Deep; Q&A with Sung J. Woo; The Page 69 Test: Skin Deep; My Book, The Movie: Deep Roots; The Page 69 Test: Deep Roots; Writers Read: Sung J. Woo (September 2023); The Page 69 Test: Lines; My Book, The Movie: Lines; Writers Read: Sung J. Woo]
At Shepherd Woo tagged five novels featuring what-if Sliding Doors narratives, including:
Pretty Little Mistakes: A Do-Over Novel by Heather McElhattonRead about another entry on the list.
If you are of a certain age, you may remember Choose Your Own Adventure novels, where you read an enticing setup of a story, and then you are asked to choose–go to page xx for this action or page yy for this other action. These books were often adventure or mystery tales, and they were fairly short.
Well, this author took this concept to new heights–she wrote over 150 different endings. All written in the second person, in this book, you can fall madly in love as well as die tragically, so caveat emptor!
The Page 99 Test: Pretty Little Mistakes.
--Marshal Zeringue
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