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Family Photos Can Change You
When Anti-Miscegenation Laws Reflected the Worst Kind of Bigotry
The Mysterious WWII Hero Whose Daring Escape From an Occupied Island Was Dwarfed by His Return as a Spy
How Death Can Teach Us to Make Meaning From the Inexplicable
A Funeral on Pandemic Eve
Reviews and Media for Glorious Boy
One of Good Housekeeping’s 20 Best Books of 2020 to Add to Your Reading List ASAP
One of Brit+Co’s 12 Books That Will Take You on a Literary Vacation
One of Travel & Leisure’s 20 New Books to Gift This Mother's Day
One of Parade’s 30 Best Beach Reads of 2020
One of the NY Post’s Best Books of the Week
"The most memorable and original novel I've read in ages. Aimee Liu… evokes every side in a multi-cultural conversation with sympathy and rare understanding." – Pico Iyer
Watch the Book Trailer for Glorious Boy: Click Here!
“Reminiscent of the tone and atmosphere of Somerset Maugham and George Orwell’s Asia-set novels” --Asian Review of Books
"A riveting amalgam of history, family epic, anticolonial/antiwar treatise, cultural crossroads... a fascinating, irresistible marvel.” — Library Journal, starred review
”Liu’s prose is masterful. A good choice for book groups and for readers who are unafraid to be swept away.” — Booklist, starred review
“Liu upends the clichés of the white savior narrative.” —Publishers Weekly
“In Glorious Boy, Liu’s superb writing.. carries the reader in an epic drama of a family caught up in events beyond their control all the way through to the nail-biting ending.” —Authorlink
"In lushly described scenes, Glorious Boy engages the reader while not providing the characters any easy paths to resolution.” —Consequence Magazine
Excerpt from Glorious Boy:
"The Nerve"
On Camera and Audio
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Aimee's conversation with debut novelist JoAnne Tompkins @Book Passage
The Publication Party @Diesel Books with Sandra Tsing Loh
Revolutionary Family Histories: A conversation with novelist Meira Chand at 2020 Singapore Literature Festival
“Reading with Robin” on A MIGHTY BLAZE – interview with Robin Homonoff
“Dialogue” – interview with Susan Wingate
Fierce Womxn Writing -- interview with Sara Gallagher
Must Read Fiction – Interview with Erin Popelka
Odyssey Bookshop event with Ellen Meeropol
Secluded: A Virtual Writing Conference: Finding and Fictionalizing Untold Stories event with Jennifer Steil
Litquake event with Donna Hemans, Ellen Meeropol, and Kristen Millares Young.
Friends of the Huntington Beach Library event
Without Books podcast
Writers' Voices podcast
In Print Online
FINDING MY STORY IN THE COLONIAL PAST OF THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS:
Aimee's essay on the origins of Glorious Boy in LITHUB
Cultural Attunement and "Otherness": The Rumpus Interview with Aimee by Colette Sartor
MS. Magazine – Interview with Aimee and author Cai Emmons
Historical Novels Review feature
Caroline Leavitt Interview with Aimee
DeadDarlings.com Interview with Aimee
AuthorsAnswer Interview with Aimee
Deborah Kalb Books Interview with Aimee
Hasty Book List Interview with Aimee
(talking of all things fun, including Holly Golightly and cocktails!)
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