Prairie Fire’s Short Fiction Contest, the Canadian Authors’ Association (Toronto) National Writing Contest, the ILS/Fence Fiction Contest, the Masters Review’s Novel Excerpt Contest, the Tennessee Williams & New Orleans Literary Festival Fiction Contest, among others.
Her debut novel is The Immortal Woman.
At Electric Lit Chang tagged nine books that "offer a diverse range of Chinese immigrant experiences in North America, weaving together tales of aspiration, adaptation, and identity across generations." One title on the list:
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste NgRead about another book on the list.
In a small Ohio town during the 1970s, a mixed-race family grapples with unfulfilled ambitions, burdened by the weight of racial discrimination and cultural expectations, setting them on a tragic path in their quest for belonging. The Lee family falls apart after daughter Lydia’s body is discovered in a lake. Navigating chaos and heartbreak, it is the youngest Lee daughter who discovers the true circumstances of her sisters demise. This psychological thriller is contemplative, heartfelt, and haunting.
Everything I Never Told You is among Mary Jones’s nine transformative books about letting go & moving on, Kasim Ali's nine books about interracial relationships and Rachel Donohue's seven “coming-of-age” novels with elements of mystery or the supernatural.
--Marshal Zeringue
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