On this episode, we sit down with author Allison King to chat about her debut novel The Phoenix Pencil Company, a novel that’s part historical fiction, part magical realism, and part sapphic romance about a young woman who discovers her family’s secret magical power to reconstruct anything written by a pencil while taking care of her ailing grandmother and learning about her own family’s history from Shanghai to Taiwan to the States.

Follow Allison on Instagram at @allisonkingwrites and check out her debut novel The Phoenix Pencil Company available now on the Books & Boba bookshop!