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A Life of Books: Mai Nardone – Welcome Me To The Kingdom

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A Life of Books: Mai Nardone – Welcome Me To The Kingdom

Welcome Me To The Kingdom by Mai Nardone is an expansive book that features three families from Bangkok in a story that shifts perspectives and spans decades. The characters and settings crafted by Nardone are memorable, realistic, and nuanced. Weaving through the lives of the characters is a treat. This book feels lived in.

Nardone’s writing has appeared in American Short Fiction, Granta, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. We asked the author to answer our recurring A Life of Books questionnaire so readers can get to know him.

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A Life of Books: Janelle M. Williams, author of Gone Like Yesterday

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A Life of Books: Janelle M. Williams, author of Gone Like Yesterday

Janelle M. Williams is the recipient of Prairie Schooner’s Lawrence Foundation Award for her story, “From the Closest Waffle House.” She also wa was a 2017 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow, and her flash fiction story “Harlem Thunder” was longlisted for the Wigleaf Top 50 in 2020.

Her debut novel, Gone Like Yesterday, is tinged with magical realism and follows two women who try to track down one’s missing brother. What follows is a haunting exploration of family, friendship, and love.

We asked the author to answer our recurring A Life of Books Questionnaire so readers can get to know her better.

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A Life of Books: Delia Cai, Author of Central Places

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A Life of Books: Delia Cai, Author of Central Places

Delia Cai’s debut novel Central Places follows a woman who left her Midwest home for Manhattan and fell in love. Now she’s bringing her fiancé back to meet her immigrant parents in hopes of them hitting it off when they finally meet. What follows is a laugh out loud, charming debut novel.

Debutiful had the author answer our recurring A Life of Books questionnaire so readers can get to know her better!

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A Life of Books: Onyi Nwabineli, author of Someday, Maybe

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A Life of Books: Onyi Nwabineli, author of Someday, Maybe

Author Onyi Nwabineli was born in Nigeria and grew up in numerous cities across the United Kingdom. She is the cofounder of Surviving Out Loud, a fund that provides fiscal support for survivors of sexual assault, and the founder of Black Pens (black-pens.com), a writing retreat for Black womxn. Her debut novel, Someday, Maybe, is about a woman overcoming the death of her husband and navigating what her new life is.

Debutiful asked her our recurring ‘A Life of Books’ questionnaire so readers can get to know her better.

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A Life of Books: Ramona Reeves – It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories

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A Life of Books: Ramona Reeves – It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories

Ramona Reeves is the author of It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories, a collection of linked stories that explores memorable characters in Mobile, Alabama.

Debutiful asked her to answer our recurring A Life of Books questionnaire so readers can get to know her better.

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A Life of Books: Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre

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A Life of Books: Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre

Joanna Quinn is the author of The Whalebone Theatre. The book, originally released in the UK earlier this year where it became a Sunday Times bestseller, has finally come stateside. Waterstones called it “a ravishing coming-of-age story set in the shadow of an oncoming war.”

Debutiful asked the author to answer our recurring “A Life of Books” questionnaire so readers could get to know her better.

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A Life of Books: Tracey Lien, author of All That’s Left Unsaid

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A Life of Books: Tracey Lien, author of All That’s Left Unsaid

All That’s Left Unsaid, the debut novel from Australian-born Tracey Lien has been praised by as “an unforgettable debut, utterly compelling from start to finish” by bestselling author Liane Moriarty. Lien, who earned her MFA at the University of Kansas and was a Los Angeles Times reporter currently lives in Brooklyn.

Her book follows a young Vietnamese-Australian woman who navigates the complicated tangles of her family and community in the wake of her brother’s murder.

Debutiful asked her to answer our recurring A Life of Books questionnaire so readers can get to know her better.

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A Life of Books: Anna Qu, author of Made in China

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A Life of Books: Anna Qu, author of Made in China

Anna Qu‘s memoir about her upbringing where she worked in a factory as a teenager, navigating her identity as a Chinese American, and the search for the truth about her family was first published in 2022 to glowing reviews. Kirkus called it “Gripping . . . Well written . . . Brilliantly insightful.”

Qu, whose writing has appeared in Poets & Writers, Lithub, Threepenny Review, Lumina, Kartika, Vol.1 Brooklyn, and Jezebel is also a the Nonfiction Editor at Kweli Journal. She was recently awarded the 2023 BMI Shearing Fellowship.

The paperback of Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor is out now and Debutiful asked Qu to answer the recurring “A Life of Books” questionnaire so readers could get to know her better.

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A Life of Books: Gabriel Patterson, author of Reminding Me of Mo

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A Life of Books: Gabriel Patterson, author of Reminding Me of Mo

Gabriel Patterson is and musician and storyteller from Denver. His career has always been about representing his home city and the people he knows and loves. His debut memoir is no different. Reminding Me of Mo is an ode to his friend Geranimo Maestas, who was murdered for his Denver Broncos jacket in 1993.

Debutiful asked the author to answer our recurring “A Life of Books” questionnaire so readers can get to know him better.

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A Life of Books: Deb Rogers, author of Florida Woman

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A Life of Books: Deb Rogers, author of Florida Woman

Deb Rogers does it all. She’s a diversity consultant, was previously a pop culture editor of SheKnows, a producer of the storytelling series Listen to Your Mother, and an LGBT community leader who helped host Queerosphere. She’s also damn funny. Her debut novel Florida Woman will make you laugh so hard that your socks will fall off.

Debutiful asked the author to answer our recurring A Life of Books questionnaire so readers can get to know her better.

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