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Historical Novel Society: Glorious Boy

Date: June 3, 2020

1942: Clair and Shep Durant, along with their mute four-year-old son, Ty, wait for evacuation to India before the imminent Japanese invasion of the remote Andaman Islands. Shep, a doctor, […]

Seattle Book Review: Glorious Boy

Date: June 3, 2020

Bound by ambition and a sense of adventure, Claire and Shep Durant journey to the Andaman Islands, a remote part of colonial India, in 1936. They dive deep into their […]

Asian Review of Books: Glorious Boy by Aimee Liu

Date: June 3, 2020

Channeling some past classics also skeptical of the colonial enterprise, Glorious Boy stands out from the crowded shelves of World War II literature by immersing the reader in one of the remoter […]

Library Journal: Glorious Boy starred review

Date: June 3, 2020

Liu’s eponymous “glorious boy” exists at the intersection of families, communities, countries, cultures—and, for a while, life and death. His spirited, adventurous parents—Shep, a British doctor obsessed with the healing […]

Rain Taxi: Subduction reviewed by Douglas Cole

Date: June 3, 2020

Subduction is most of all a story of displacement and dislocation: for Claudia, whose Latina heritage lies over a border and whose sense of family lies beyond the betrayal that […]

Library Journal reviews Subduction

Date: June 3, 2020

VERDICT Gorgeously, toughly written, this book dares to be open-ended yet leaves readers with a satisfying sense of how life really unfolds. Cultural clash matters here, but personal differences and […]

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