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🇰🇷 Korean American fiction writer
📖 SONG FOR ANOTHER HOME coming July 2026 from Simon & Schuster's @37inkbooks
🌟2023 @reesesbookclub LitUp fellow

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This little bookstore in Madison, AL sure packs a mighty punch! Perfect for a BOOKSTORE CRAWL! 📚 @blueapplebookstore They have a great selection of books, including an awesome CLASSICS section! Things I loved:

✨️ The little owls peeking out from the shelves!

✨️ The blue apple and the blue & white checkered table cloths!

✨️ The banned book section!

Guess which book came home with me!!!!

p.s. borrowed storefront images from Google.

#blueapplebookstore #bookstorecrawl #madisonal #downtownmadisonal #supportindiebookstores

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✨𝑭𝑹𝑰𝑫𝑨𝒀 𝑭𝑬𝑨𝑻𝑼𝑹𝑬𝑺✨
Thank you so much @simonbooks for the #gifted books. #simonbooksbuddy

Thank goodness it’s Friday, I slept weird on Tuesday which gave me a really sore neck which messed up my sleep Wednesday and Thursday… so I’m tired and cranky and am gonna be a ‘delight’ to be around today. LOL

👉👉Lemme know if you want to buddy read any of these.

⁉️𝑸𝑶𝑻𝑫: Any fun plans this weekend? What are you going into the weekend reading? What’s for dinner tonight? I’m always looking for dinner ideas.

📕Song For Another Home @boraleereed
Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko meets Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing in this powerful story of family separation and reunion, as well as love and war from a Reese’s Book Club LitUp fellow…Movingly rendered, Song for Another Home highlights the tension between personal dreams and duty to family, the power of resilience, and how choices made in a brief moment have consequences that reverberate for lifetimes.

📘Chosen @sandraellensmith.author
In the tradition of The Glass Castle, a poignant, inspirational memoir of a lonely girl who survived decades of harrowing abuse at home to open her heart and redefine what it is to be a family and a mom…Fearlessly facing the challenges of race, class, prejudice, addiction, and abandonment, Chosen shows us how one determined mother built a family of her choosing and recovered the affirming, healing power of love.

📙We Are Called to Rise @laura.mcbride.writes
“Your heart will break…then soar” (Redbook) when, far from the neon lights of the Vegas strip, three lives collide in a split-second mistake and a child’s fate hangs in the balance.

#brandysreads #readersofpa #bookfeature

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It’s always a privilege to hear from an author.

Thanks again for sharing this story with us @boraleereed!

Song For Another Home is out now! Get your copy today (Simon & Schuster).

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Good morning and happy Monday Moods! 💜🎶 Fall brings homecomings, reunions, and family time - so we’ve got some family sagas for you today. These multigenerational masterpieces bring different measures of heartwarming mirth, intriguing mystery, and gripping horror. Pair with the greatest hits of James Taylor and you get a sweeping range of emotion bound to keep you hanging on to every word.

• “Song for Another Home” by Bora Lee Reed
• “Our Cut of Salt” by Deena Helm
• “Country People” by Daniel Mason
• “American Hagwon” by Min Jin Lee
• “Taipei Story” by R. F. Kuang
• “Babylon, South Dakota” by Tom Lin
• “Female Life on Planet Earth” by Laleh Khadivi
• “Tata” by Valérie Perrin

#mondaymoods #truckee #indiebookstores

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Hey Bay Area Friends! Join me at Cllio’s Books in Oakland! Go to friendsofwriters.org to purchase a tix (it’s a fundraiser for scholarships for writers). I purchased one pay it forward ticket: Do you know an aspiring writer who would love to come to Clio’s to meet these amazing writers, enjoy good food, chat with other writers? Let me know!

@warrenwilsonmfa @mononoke97 @boraleereed @clios_oakland

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New Items Added to FOW Online Auction!!

We wanted to let you know of two exciting new items added to our FOW online auction:

Reading and Writing Motherhood with Leigh Lucas @ Backstory Above: This five-part workshop explores the contradictions and extremes of motherhood and builds sustainable writing practices that can flex with the unpredictability of caretaking. Thank you to The Backstory Above for their generous partnership!

Mercury Theater Tickets: Enjoy a performance at the renowned Mercury Theater with a friend. This item includes two (2) tickets to any of Mercury Theater's regular shows. We’re grateful to Mercury Theater for their generous support!

Not local to San Francisco? Not to worry–our auction has plenty in store for everyone, including:

Manuscript reviews: Winning bidders will receive feedback on their work-in-progress from Charles Baxter, Brooks Haxton, A. Van Jordan, or Laura van den Berg

Book bundles: Featuring specially-signed collections honoring our Holden and Carol Houck Smith Scholarships, with inscribed books by Fred Arroyo, Natalie Baszile, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Victoria Chang, Sasha Hom, and others

Tickets are still available to join Friends of Writers on October 18th at Clio’s to Celebrate 35 Years of Giving. Join us for readings, refreshments and good company!

If you can’t make it, please consider donating a ticket. All funds raised will support FOW’s programming, scholarships, and grants for writers.

Check out the auction and the event via the link in our bio!

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Thanks @simonbooks for the #sponsored copy!

Pachinko meets Homegoing in this powerful story of family separation and reunion amid love and war from a Reese’s Book Club LitUp fellow.

When news hits in 1950 that the Americans have entered the war between North and South Korea, Oksoon and her family believe the conflict will soon end. But then China joins the war, and they decide to flee their home in Pyongyang despite the freezing temperatures and lack of food. Journeying from the barren, war-torn streets of the North in the winter to the seedy back alleys of the South Korean capital of Seoul in the summer, the family falls in with an unlikely group of miscreants.

Meanwhile, far to the south, Oksoon’s cousin Junho seeks refuge at an orphanage for abandoned children. As the institution struggles to keep its doors open, Junho, with his elementary command of English, is tasked with drafting letters to American missionaries and benefactors to ask for money. When the enigmatic director brings her aristocratic niece to the orphanage, Junho finds himself caught between his impulse for survival and his growing affections for the young woman, even though his feelings put him at risk of being expelled from the only safe place he knows.

Movingly rendered, Song for Another Home highlights the power of resilience, the tension between personal dreams and duty to family, and how choices made in a brief moment have consequences that reverberate across time and through generations.

#simonbooksbuddy #reesesbookclub #historicalfiction philodendron

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Celebrate 35 Years of Giving together! The party is only one month away. Tickets are going fast! Purchase yours through the link in our bio!

And you won't have to wait to take part in our auction! Among the items you can bid on now:

Manuscript reviews: Winning bidders will receive feedback on their work-in-progress from Charles Baxter, Brooks Haxton, A.Van Jordan, or Laura van den Berg

Book bundles: Featuring specially-signed collections honoring our Holden and Carol Houck Smith Scholarships, with inscribed books by Fred Arroyo, Natalie Baszile, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Victoria Chang, Sasha Hom, and others

Experiences: Stay at a lakehouse in Tahoe, win a one-year membership at the Writing Salon, or tickets to a show at the Mercury Theater, and more!

Place your bids through the link in our bio.

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I thought my summer would be a quiet one, because I was on multiple deadlines and figured I’d spend most of it working on my next novel. Instead, I did more events than ever, and got to hang out with some of the most incredible women/authors on Earth. So grateful for and to everyone I got to meet over the last few months! I can’t wait for y’all to meet Book 2 in the next few! 🫶🏾

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☀️ August Wrap Up ☀️

I read 11 amazing books last month and enjoyed lots of beach reading before heading back to work for the new school year. My August reads were:

⛓️‍💥 Liberty Street by @heathermarshallauthor

🌹 The Rose Code by @katequinn5975

✋🏾 We Refuse by @kelliecarterjackson

🛟 Fat Swim by Emma Copley Eisenberg
(Thank you again to @hogarthbooks for my gifted copy!)

🌼 Work in Progress by @jamesmartinsj

🧼 The Housewife by @nataliebarelli.author

✈️ The Missed Connection by @tiawilliamswrites

🐄 Yesteryear by @caroclaireburke

🇰🇷 Song For Another Home by @boraleereed
(Thank you again to @simonbooks and @37inkbooks for my gifted copy!)

🏠 The May House by @jilliancantor

🇮🇹 Nymph by @whine.barrel

📚 Have you read any of these beauties? OR What are your plans for this last official week of summer?

#augustwrapup #summerreading #simonbooksbuddy #hogarth

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Join us next Tuesday, September 22nd, as Bora Lee Reed discusses her debut novel, Song for Another Home. RSVP via the link in our bio.

@boraleereed @paulkyuminlee

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During the Korean War in 1950, cousins Oksoon and Junho are torn apart as violence sweeps across Korea, forcing them onto separate paths filled with fear and uncertainty. Oksoon escapes south from Pyongyang with her mother and younger brother, moving through a landscape crowded with frightened refugees and soldiers while searching for safety. Far away, Junho remains at an orphanage near Korea’s southern coast, where he cares for younger children and reaches out to American missionaries for the food and supplies they desperately need. When the orphanage director’s wealthy niece arrives, Junho’s quiet life is changed by new relationships, unexpected challenges, and a growing understanding of the complicated world around him. As war shatters their homes and separates them from those they love, Oksoon and Junho discover courage, hope, and the strength to keep moving forward even when the future feels uncertain.

*Available Now*

#SongForAnotherHome #BoraLeeReed
#ARC #SimonBooks #SimonAndSchuster
Thank you @simonbooks and @37inkbooks

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