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In this NBN episode, I speak with Su Chang, author of The Immortal Woman (House of Anansi, 2025). Head to my bio link to go to my NBN host page to listen in. A sweeping generational story of heartbreak, resilience, and yearning, revealing an insider’s view of the fractured lives of Chinese immigrants and those they leave behind. Lemei, once a student Red Guard leader in 1960s Shanghai and a journalist at a state newspaper, was involved in a brutal act of violence during the Tiananmen Square protests and lost all hope for her country. Her daughter, Lin, is a student at an American university on a mission to become a true Westerner. She tirelessly erases her birth identity, abandons her Chinese suitor, and pursues a white lover, all the while haunted by the scars of her upbringing. Following China’s meteoric rise, Lemei is slowly dragged into a nationalistic perspective that stuns Lin. Their final confrontation results in tragic consequences, but ultimately, offers hope for a better future. By turns wry and lyrical, The Immortal Woman reminds us to hold tight to our humanity at any cost. SU CHANG is a Chinese Canadian writer. Born and raised in Shanghai, she is the daughter of a former (reluctant) Red Guard leader. Her fiction has been recognized in Prairie Fire’s Short Fiction Contest, the Canadian Authors Association (Toronto) National Writing Contest, the ILS/Fence Fiction Contest, and the Masters Review’s Novel Excerpt Contest, among others. ✨: @suchangwrites @houseofanansi @newbooksnetwork . . . #litfic #ireadcanadian #bookish #chinesecanadian #readmore
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🌺Welcome to the Asian Bookish Support Group! This group aims to help promote Asian bookish content, including Asian authors or books with Asian main characters. You do not have to be Asian to join. It is open to Bookish public accounts only. Basically, any time you tag the group in a post, you need to engage in posts from others within the group. And they will do the same. If you don’t tag, you don’t need to engage. Anything above and beyond is greatly appreciated, but not required. How this works: * Tag the group in your post. * Limit to 2 tags per day. * Go into Messages and unsend the tagged post as soon as possible in order to keep this inbox clean for messages. * Go to the tagged section and like all posts from the past 24 hours. Rules: * Only Asian-related bookish posts are to be tagged. * Comments, saves and shares are encouraged but not required. * Please keep all graphics IG friendly. * NO AI posts or books written with generative AI or AI covers. * If we find a post not appropriate for the group, we will ask you to remove it. * Be kind, have fun, make new bookish friends! Please follow the account and message me to confirm acceptance of the rules to join. Post the slide to your feed or stories to share the word! The more people, the better the engagement 🌺 @alicelauthor @sjcrawfordauthor @heatherengwrites @vivianjialac @beilin_writes @giachungauthor @ryecoxauthor @theceeyang @naomichenwrites @sadiecruz_author @margaretliseeley @samjamtimtam @byangelicacheng @thegraciemarsden @nghivowriting @florchien @sophie.x.li @lilychuatuhor @michelletangwrites @bettychangauthor @lyndsaysungbooks @cynthiatimoti @suchangwrites @alexbharper.author
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Thank you, @emwritersfestival, for hosting such a beautiful event. It was wonderful to stand or walk along the Eramosa River, enjoy nature, discuss literature and meet so many good people! #edenmills #canlit #literaryfiction #sevenheavensaway
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When I spoke to author Ann Cavlovic last week, we ran out of time and I wasn’t able to ask for her book recommendations. But fear not! Ann sent me her book recs and here they are with a few words from Ann. Have you read any? Which ones are on your TBR? 1) The Pugilist and the Sailor by Nadia Ragbar: an uplifting story about sibling bonds (if needed after reading Ann’s book!) The Immortal Woman by Su Chang: another intergenerational trauma story (also 4 generations of women) around Chinese diaspora Su Chang will be at the @emwritersfestival this Sunday Sept 20th. Honeydew by Ben Zalkind : this one deserves more attention - a funny and smart romp through corporate surveillance Something that Helps by Mona Hovring: sink immediately into a poetic, watery world An Astonishment of Stars by Kirti Bhadresa: a master class in what renders racialized women invisible Dog Days of Planet Earth by Theresa Shea : Ann’s best read of the year: human-animal-environment brilliance. (coming in October) Ann’s book! If you missed our live chat, it’s available to watch on my grid.
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I'm grateful to award-winning author Joseph Kertes for this interview, and to author Su Chang for co-ordinating it! Joseph's novels explore the transcendent power of love, and this is true of his new novel Sirens. Read the sysnopsis and his interview at the link in our bio. Discover his approach to writing and edting, and his advice to writers! Josepth escaped from Hungary with his family as a child during the Hungarian Revolution. He founded Humber Polytechnic’s creative writing and comedy programs, where he served as Dean of Creative and Performing Arts for many years and received numerous awards for teaching and innovation. . #authorinterview #Canadianwriters #CanLit #historialfiction #wwiihistoricalfiction #worldwar2fiction
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TMR PRESENTS | INTERVIEW FEATURE 🎉 THE RANDY BOYAGODA INTERVIEW | Interview Exclusive by Su Chang @suchangwrites 🎤 TMR welcomes author Su Chang! 📘 Lords of Serendipity by Randy Boyagoda is published by HarperCollins @harpercollinsca. 🔹 Both sharply satirical and deeply humane, Lords of Serendipity examines what education promises, what it actually delivers, and what people are willing to risk in pursuit of opportunity. In this conversation with novelist Su Chang, Boyagoda reflects on the campus novel as both literary form and institutional X-ray, discussing satire, civil discourse, compromised moral choices, and the fragile ideals that still draw people to universities. He also considers his own position as novelist, professor, and administrator, and why fiction can hold competing truths about higher education without resolving them too neatly. 🎤 Interview: Su Chang: Randy… It is a truly dazzling campus novel: timely and serious, and at the same time, very funny and genuinely entertaining. You are writing from inside a university, and in fact from very high up inside one. As the former Vice-Dean, Undergraduate at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Arts and Science, you saw the machinery behind undergraduate life. How much of this novel is based on what you saw on the ground? And more generally, what are the inspirations behind this project? Randy Boyagoda: Thank you for having me. I would say that my life as a university person informs, thoroughly, the storylines and the elements of Lords of Serendipity. I went to university when I was nineteen and I have never left. I have experienced universities as an undergraduate, as a graduate student, postdoc, professor, university administrator, and now as a parent of two university-age daughters. My father went to the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka in the mid-1950s, and I grew up in an immigrant household in 1980s Oshawa where what I heard… 🎤Su Chang’s TMR Interview Exclusive continues ➡️ TAP our link in bio for more! 🔗 #canlit #interview #fiction #literaryfiction #interviewexclusive #feature #canadianliterature #authorinterview #septemberreads #litmag #exclusive
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Join us at the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival on September 20th for a fascinating conversation about censorship and finding the bravery to write the stories that need to be told. The panel discussion, featuring Su Chang, Joanne Liu and Ashraf Zaghal, will be moderated by Giller-nominated author and PEN Canada board member Kim Echlin. Su Chang is the author of The Immortal Woman, Dr. Joanne Liu is the author of Ebola, Bombs, and Migrants and former president of Doctors Without Borders. Ashraf Zaghal joins us with his debut novel, Seven Heavens Away. Kim Echlin, author of The Disappeared, Tell Others and Speak, Silence, will guide the conversation as these four authors explore stories of humanity, resilience and the world around us. Tickets are available via the link in bio 🔗 #EdenMillsWritersFestival #GuelphEvents #CanadianAuthors #CanadianLiterature #BookLovers
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Deal News - Su Chang’s THE FAR SIDE OF MERCY Shirarose Wilensky of House of Anansi has acquired World rights to THE FAR SIDE OF MERCY by Su Chang, author of the critically acclaimed THE IMMORTAL WOMAN.  This novel-in-constellation is a psychological study of forbidden love, crime, grief, spirituality, and the temptations of celebrity culture, following three Chinese women as they make drastically different choices in their search for peace. Publication is planned for Spring 2028, and the deal was arranged by Carolyn Forde at Transatlantic Agency.  Su Chang is represented by Carolyn Forde. Congratulations, Su!
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Our August Short Story Month begins with a remarkable voice whose work we have admired since the publication of Su Chang’s outstanding debut novel 'The Immortal Woman'. We’re delighted to publish her powerful short story 'The Bottle Man'. Set in Toronto, this moving tale explores migration, memory, dignity, family, and the quiet loneliness of lives lived between languages and cultures. It is a deeply humane portrait of an immigrant whose bottles, bicycles, and songs conceal a lifetime of hope, disappointment, and resilience. A fitting opening to a month in which Literatur.Review brings together previously untranslated and unpublished short fiction from the Global North and South. (Available in Arabic, English, French, German & Spanish) LINK IN BIO #shortstory #suchang #chinesecanadian #diaspora #migration #literature
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It took Su Chang nearly 20 drafts to complete her debut novel, The Immortal Woman. And now it's an award winner! When Su first came to North America from Shanghai in her early 20s, becoming a writer in English was the last thing on her mind. Her focus, like that of many new immigrants, was on settling in and finding work. For a decade, she focused on reading almost exclusively in English and taking creative writing classes. Slowly, she began winning a few competitions with short stories and built the confidence to tackle the novel she'd been thinking about for years. Her journey is a powerful testament to dedication and the long, often unseen, process behind a debut. The Immortal Woman is a sweeping generational story on China’s contemporary history and the fractured lives of new Chinese immigrants. Su lives in Ontario with her family. Thank you, Su, for the deep, insightful, and beautiful interview! . #debutnovel #creativewriting #Chineseimmigrants #immigrantstories #ChineseCanadian #CulturalRevolution #podcastrecommendations #hiddenhistories #historicalnovel #podcast
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The full lineup for @emwritersfestival is live now and you'll find me there with COUNTY ROAD SIX this fall! I'm all fired up to fest with the likes of @missstaceymay, @nickcutter2026, @gregrhyno, @suchangwrites, @ay.jay.gee, who I know and are cool people. There's a whole countryside-load of other amazing authors I hope to see there too, like Michelle Porter, Amanda Peters, @bymainguyen, @_ghostpine, and many more... Check out the link here, and grab ye some tickets to this unique rural fest. Really looking forward to getting out there for the first time. TICKETS: https://edenmillswritersfestival.ca/tickets/ #AmReading #EdenMills #Writers #Festival #CanLit #Bookstagram
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Deepa Rajagopalan’s curation for this reading series was fantastic: considerate, eclectic and electric! I only missed some photos bc I was too caught up in the readings! More photos to come. I also met and chatted reviewing with the lovely writer @bx_writenow! I managed to miss chatting with @writingsformydaughters but I am so so intrigued to learn more! 😍
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