Review: Homeseeking by Karissa Chen features love, war and yuanfen
At 7 years old, Suchi meets Haiwen in their neighborhood in Shanghai. It’s 1938. The city is under…
by serenapuang January 10, 2025
At 7 years old, Suchi meets Haiwen in their neighborhood in Shanghai. It’s 1938. The city is under…
by serenapuang January 10, 2025
I read 51 books in 2024. I’ve moderated book panels for five, written about 13 for work, and…
by serenapuang January 7, 2025
Marsh — short for Marshmallow because she’s “so sweet and soft” — hates her nickname but goes by…
by serenapuang July 9, 2024
Newlyweds Lewis and Wren are an unlikely couple. Lewis loves performing –– both in his personal life on…
by serenapuang August 8, 2023
When Jess starts her new analyst job at Goldman Sachs, the first face she sees belongs to Josh,…
by serenapuang June 12, 2023
In R.F. Kuang’s darkly humorous novel, “Yellowface,” a floundering writer endeavors to hold on to her new place…
by serenapuang May 18, 2023
When Maxine Hong Kingston wrote her first book, “The Woman Warrior” in 1976, she originally intended to publish it…
by serenapuang April 12, 2023
The first book-to-movie adaptation I remember seeing is “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.” My then-best…
by serenapuang February 28, 2023
In 2020, “American Dirt” a novel about the experiences of an undocumented Mexican woman and her son moving…
by serenapuang February 19, 2023
Confession: When I tell people that I’m reading a new book, what I really mean is that I…
by serenapuang February 3, 2023