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

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“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
 

On camera

The Publication Party @Diesel Books with Sandra Tsing Loh

“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
 

In Print

NY Post’s Best Books of the Week
LA Times Book Club: The Last End-of-the-world Book List

Online

FINDING MY STORY IN THE COLONIAL PAST OF THE ANDAMAN ISLANDS:
 Aimee's essay on the origins of Glorious Boy in LITHUB

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!)