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
As some of you know, I’ve been settling in Baton Rouge, and Friday marked three weeks on the…
by serenapuang August 11, 2024
Marsh — short for Marshmallow because she’s “so sweet and soft” — hates her nickname but goes by…
by serenapuang July 9, 2024
First month in Korea As some of you know, I was recently awarded a fellowship to study Korean…
by serenapuang October 6, 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
Earlier this week, I let people know that I’m working on a thesis project about writing about Asian…
by serenapuang September 11, 2022
Hi! If you’re here because you saw me/my social media profile at the National AAJA Convention, it’s nice…
by serenapuang July 24, 2022
It’s week three of my time at the Boston Globe, and I wrote five stories in five days.…
by serenapuang June 19, 2022