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Carrie Chang
"The Adventures of Mimiko Cat," is a comical romance about a waif that lives a comic book existence in a raving madcap world, a leftist saboteur journalist who keeps flying…
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Carrie Chang was born in 1970, in Syracuse, New York. She attended Stanford University, UC-Berkeley and New York University, obtaining her B.A., and M.J. and M.F.A. in English and journalism…
On a quiet summer's day, I will remember the strange mumbo jumbo I've muttered into paisley tea-cups and hat-boxes, into pearly, desperado rooms of anonymous paint and wallpaper, places strewn…
Louise Gooding
An anthology of 40 inspirational figures who are neurologically or physically diverse. Now available in paperback.
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This subconscious ploy into a humorous city enlivened by the diablo ghosts of another era is a soulful breather of incarnate words and post-modern identity; Emily Yew is a down-and-out…
"Erstwhile Bubble Tea" is 100 percent pure moonshine, a literary topis of strange beliefs and occasional bliss, a humanitarian account of how the sunshine tribe triumphed over darkness and the…
These Neo-nostalgic poems are mind-benders, celestial missives brought in from the stork with a starry, mandy angle, written with tick-tock deliberation and pride. With Sino-salvation and brusque dragon wings, they…
In Sushi Girl, the art of sibling rivalry becomes intertwined with sushi smorgasbord, as the Su sis-ters find themselves on the verge of a nervous breakdown, living with hilarity and…
These syncopated tropes of sylvan metier and the old paradise country struggle reflect the heart of a Chinese-American poet in full conscience, ring-a-ding poems of earth and light that descry…
Li Qing Zhao’s Kitchen is a pandemonium of quick words, a hot-stop of new age versification, tender poems written by the disco ball of the 21st century dark music of…
"The Dieters" is a feel-good travesty of gourmand pleasure, a no-no to eating while you're in the monkey-bars of time, a piece de resistance of literary treasure that describes the…
This fine book of poetic verses is a lingua franca of zoo element and libertarian circus act, filled with ABC identity clauses that will knock your socks off, designed for…
These lavender sub-rosa letters traced blithely from the lacunae of the genie’s heart are all misfits and soul crashers, illuminated by the save-the-world Bagua light and dark hexagons and circles…
This is a novel about family expectations, a story about Chinese struggles with so many pretty et ceteras, about beating da sa jieh on the head with heightened morals and…
Sonnets to a Fetishini is a feel-good vaudeville of high-cholesterol demolition egg-on-display verbal pyrotechnics, the romance of three hysterical Asian-American women who find themselves head over heels over European sinophiles…
A tale of diaspora in which the small town gals found their ultimate beat. In this rag-time melody of beat-prose and surreptitious word-play, simplicity bedevils the young Chinese girls of…
In Carrie Changs winning fifth novel, The Quack, set in the beloved postcard city of Chinatown, San Francisco, the red planetary mists converge with hexagonal bagua wonder as old Chinese…
Two Shades of Regret is a sine qua non of Sino-thrill poems which border on the evanescent and the tripnotic hem of the roseate lyric, lovely paeans of blooming immortality…
This imaginary repast of words, cut across a terra incognito of porcelain and useless dragonoid fever, is a feast of dynastic worth, love, and joy ra-ta-ta felt across the shimmering…
Raycious Life is a tale of two cities, a lumbago breeder of Chinese women and glorious hairdos, and a breathtaking novel of ennobling beauty and upheaval. Set in both Hong…
These finely crafted ecofeminist poems cut from brown sugar and green cloth are the stuff of starfish whiz and Asian American turmoil, a yin-and-yang duo turned inside out with a…
Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, Cloud Bristle is a cacophony of voices strung together like jetsam pearls glimmering in a set of fake teeth. Linda, Lucy, Lucinda, and Dorrie…
These poems are superannuated haiku, missives from the velveteen earth, and sketches of a divine immortality. They are purlieus of eye-bending syllabics combined in hyphenated ghost-like form. Curved out in…
"The Anorexic Maison," is a coup d'etat of verbal acrobatics, about the Great Habitue of Non-eating, a 21st libertarian circus of snide effects in which the glam gals confess why…
Mulberry Myths is a poetic rouser of sixteen melodies, a razzamatazz of sino-images that are a token of this romantic movement of magical linguistic bravura, a modern symphony of eastern…
Helen is obsessed with gods of destruction in Chinatown, and hereditary fracas in the cosmos, the genealogy of muses, who laugh and cry in the passing of time and the…
The world is full of people who are a little different in one way or another. Our uniqueness is what makes us stand out and makes us who we are…
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Welcome to the 48th issue of Reader's House magazine!
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Carrie Nielsen
Tells the story of how crusading scientists and activists convinced the US government to ban lead additives in gasoline. The book also reveals how, for nearly 50 years, scientific experts…
Carrie Farley
At the tender age of eighteen, Ondrea Williams never thought that when shetook her chance in the game of love and marriage, that it would cost her-forever.The aftermath of that…
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