![]() ![]() A monumental achievement.”īefore telling you about the novel, I’ll just share that I found it masterful. This is a book I have been waiting a very long time for. This is a book that insists on no uncertain terms and despite horrific institutional and everyday racism that South Asian Americans are indeed Americans. Laskar has written a beautiful, harrowing fever dream of a novel. If that wasn’t enough, Nayomi Munaweera, author of the excellent Island of a Thousand Mirrors, and What Lies Between Us said: Kwon added the book to her list based on a recommendation by writer, editor and professor Kiese Laymon, who said he’d “never read a novel that does nearly as much in so few pages,” and that the book is “as narratively beautiful as it is brutal.” ![]() I recognised many, but a new name that jumped out at me was debut author Devi S. Kwon 48 Books By Women and Nonbinary Authors of Color to Read in 2019. I discovered this debut novel after seeing an article on Electric Lit by author R.O. ![]()
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